At the time, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, then justice minister stated: "The view we take here is that there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." But that didn't mean the persecution of gay men for being gay stopped. At a Lutheran Church in Toronto former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker rails against the permissive society, which means more sex, more drugs, more violence. The decriminalization wasn't nothing, because having the prime minister of Canada, the then justice minister, say the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation, was huge. A: It took a concerted effort by primarily gay and lesbian lawyers who were committed to advancing that agenda over many years.

Source: CBC News May 15, 2019 04:08 UTC