[](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/textiles/reason-over-passionla-raison-avant-la-passion-quilt/attachment/reason-over-passion-by-joyce-wieland/) Created as a meditation on the Canada that Pierre Trudeau was creating while the Minister of Justice, a nation where “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. This stance formed the critical Criminal Law Amendment Act and enacted the decriminalization of homosexual acts, the legalization of contraception, divorce and abortion.