Pierre Trudeau's Creation Of A Just Society

Reaching back to the 1970s, it is clear to see a new mentality was beginning to form. This mentality, brought by the incredible Pierre Trudeau was unlike any in history. He brought the idea that problems such as racism, sexism, and gender inequality were really a thing of the past, and there’s no need for it. “A just society is a society in which people don’t discriminate, where people can enjoy freedom of speech, religion, education, and equal rights and opportunities” (Breaton Lecture). Due to Trudeau, Canada has greatly worked towards creating this “Just Society”. Canada has improved from what it once was, such as creating equality for women, a newfound respect for immigrants, although it still struggles with racism for certain groups such as the natives, which is something that still needs to change in order to become a true Just Society.
Although, in this new world brought by Trudeau, equality has taken over. This can be seen in the situations of divorce. Women have been forced in and out of marriages since the beginning of time, and are usually left with nothing afterward. An inspirational woman named Irene Murdoch showed all of Canada how brutal divorce laws were when she lost everything over a disagreement with her husband. He had chosen to divorce her due to this argument, and she was brutally punished for it, with the courts completely in the husband’s favor (Freeman-Shaw).This shows that women were treated as objects rather than actual people, always being property to a man. When the Trudeau government reformed divorce, it allowed women to love who they want to, for as long as they want to, and be able to fall out of love without being punished, which is a huge step towards creating a “Just