The federal government recognized, 13 years later, in 1983, that the RCMP was in many ways inept and morally and ethically bankrupt, and stripped the force of its national security mandate.

This is what makes the Liberals’ discourse so hollow, so empty, so void of any moral sense.

This is very unlike the unprincipled and ambiguous position of the Government of Canada to date.

In this same vein, reference is made to the moral view that people who, while in a state of self-induced intoxication, violate the physical integrity of others are blameworthy and must therefore be held criminally accountable for their conduct, whence the need to incorporate in the law a standard of care, departure from which would entail criminal fault (1725) A minor amendment has been suggested by the justice committee concerning paragraph 4 of the preamble, which points out logically enough that the consumption of intoxicants may not necessarily cause a person to act involuntarily.