"People's Private Lives Are None Of Your Business" (Bernier)

Maxime Bernier, on answering questions about his "biker gang-linked" ex-girlfriend:

“People’s private lives are none of your business,” Bernier told the House, garnering a standing ovation and chumly pats on the back from Conservative members around him.

Ahead of the debate, Prime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed the reports as irrelevant to government business, calling Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe "gossipy old busybodies."

"I hear one of my cabinet ministers has an ex-girlfriend," Harper said. "It’s none of my business. It's none of Mr. Duceppe's business. It's none of Mr. Dion's business."

Remember that line when the Cons come asking to ban abortion, or religious rights of minorities, or continue to use "racial profiling" at border crossings, or choose to smoke pot in the confines of their own homes, etc., etc.