the uk actually appears to be adjusting to this. it appears to be the new pm's electoral mandate to reverse this. canada's government, at multiple levels, should follow the direction of the uk's labour party.

liberals and conservatives both practice this worst-kind-of socialism in canada, and the ndp largely does, too. the truth is that all three parties are exactly the same.

the policies that doug ford continually advances are the same socialism-for-the-rich policies that all modern conservatives, and all modern liberals, advocate for. this worst-kind-of-socialism privatizes profits and socializes losses. in the socialism-for-the-rich model, the purpose of the state is to dump societal losses on the poor, and spread out those losses through high taxes for the poor, low taxes for the rich and slashed social services to offset it.

while i acknowledge that the science is not yet in on the effect of homosexual marriage or polygamous relationships on the social development of children, which i would consider to be functionally equivalent a priori, and i'm willing to wait for the science to come in before officially recommending state action, i expect that i will ultimately support removing children from homosexual and polygamous situations and placing them in foster care with heterosexual and monogamous parents, to uphold normal social development and re-establish healthy societal norms. this is especially important for the children of recent immigrants, to socialize the children to monogamy and prevent the normalization of polygamy in canadian society.

the state should act strictly in the best interests of the child.

while i neither support homosexuality nor polygamy, and continue to have moral opposition to both behaviours, i would follow mill in refusing to criminalize either behavour, insofar as they relate to consensual behaviour involving adults. so long as children are not involved, i see no harm in consensual deviant sexual behaviour between adults. my interest in state intervention is related strictly to the science as it applies to the social development of children, and the state's responsibility to intervene in the best interests of the child.