“Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.”

— Pierre Trudeau

Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 83
Memoirs (1993)
Context: What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

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15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919–2000

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