'Watching Rempel’s outrage, I can’t help but think this isn’t really about animal abuse, but a way to further mould Trudeau into a workable soft-on-everything boogeyman.'

The Liberal Party of Canada is perverting the very fibre of Canadian society. The latter-day version of the party, helmed by a privileged dolt named Justin Trudeau, has swung open the country’s borders while closing it to pipelines. It has poisoned our youth with legal weed, allowed religious hordes to wantonly circumcise their female children and otherwise sacrificed our traditions at twin altars of diversity and inclusion. Coincidentally or not, the party of Laurier et al. has made it easier for Canadians to have sex with animals.

To be fair to Michelle Rempel, she has only perpetuated three of the above tropes for political gain over the last several years. To be extra fair to her, it’s worth remembering that it was her colleagues — step right up, Peter Kent, Larry Smith, Candice Bergen and Marilyn Gladu, among other Conservative MPs — who invoked Reefer Madness-level hysteria over marijuana legalization. Rempel was refreshingly circumspect of the Liberals’ legalization bill, rightfully questioning the long-term effects of marijuana use on developing brains.

On the issue of cross-species intercourse, however, Rempel is clear: it is a massive problem in Canada, one Trudeau himself has perpetuated. “Justin Trudeau refuses to deal with this issue,” she said in a video last March. “I have no idea why he hasn’t dealt with this.”

Rempel’s ire stems from the alleged Liberal foot-dragging on her own private member’s bill closing a loophole in the country’s law prohibiting bestiality. In June 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld an acquittal of a British Columbia man charged with bestiality because the incident in which he engaged (I’ll spare you the details) didn’t involve anal or vaginal sex with an animal.

What has followed, at least according to the Calgary Nose Hill MP, has been a rash of animal-sex enthusiasts mounting a Bill Clinton-esque defence of what exactly constitutes sex. This, she intones, clearly doesn’t bother the current prime minister. “This is a no-brainer,” Rempel said of closing the loophole. “There are so many things he’s prioritized above something that could literally take no time to do. It’s a perfect example of Justin Trudeau failing to put priorities and safety of Canadians first.”

Rempel is right about one thing: closing the loophole is a no-brainer. Yes, such acts are wretched, reprehensible and otherwise “disgusting and sick,” as she has said herself. Yes, those who have sex with animals, penetrative or otherwise, should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The loophole should be slammed shut.

Watching Rempel’s outrage, though, I can’t help but think this isn’t really about animal abuse, but a way to further mould Trudeau into a workable soft-on-everything boogeyman.

Sick as it is, bestiality isn’t nearly the scourge Rempel of the Honourable Member’s nightmares. The case of the above-mentioned B.C. man is an exception, in that it is the lone listed Supreme Court case in which a defendant was charged with bestiality. The Federal Court, meanwhile, has exactly one listed case involving bestiality, in 2013.

In Rempel’s Alberta, home to over 4.3 million people, six people were charged with bestiality between 2013 and 2017. Rempel herself mentioned four pending court cases involving bestiality, yet no one at her office could provide the details. “I found them by a Google search, and a bunch of them came up,” said Rempel’s assistant.

Even one instance of bestiality is one too many, to be sure, but statistically, it is insignificant. More statistically significant: the 500 or so people convicted for marijuana possession in Alberta every year, most of whom have endured criminal records and often jail sentences as a result. Not coincidentally, legalization was one of the Liberal government’s priorities, simply because the status quo was unfair to so many thousands of people across the country.

There is a certain familiarity to Rempel’s schtick. Earlier this year, while speaking about the issue of female genital mutilation, she suggested the Liberal government wanted to purge its citizenship guide of any mention of the barbaric act. Doing so, Rempel opined, sent the “tacit message to people that perhaps the Canadian government is OK with it.”

She further badgered Somalia-born Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen as to his “personal view” on the matter — as if to suggest Hussen was somehow in favour of lopping off pieces of a woman’s anatomy. (The Liberals eventually included a reference in the citizenship guide to genital mutilation, which Hussen called an “abhorrent practice.”)

She has repeatedly railed against the current migrant “crisis” affecting this country, as though the roughly 47,000 refugee claimants last year were at once gaming the system and altering this huge swath of land populated by 36 million people for the worse.

I’m sure Rempel cares deeply about the cause of animals, just as she does for victims of genital mutilation and the scads of purportedly put-upon Canadians being overrun by migrant hordes. Too bad her politics seem to always get in the way.

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