It can no longer be said that «copyright protects the form in which an
idea is presented but not the
idea itself» because private rights have confiscated content from the public
weal and new and expanded rights have been bolted retrospectively onto existing works.
Historically, Canada's political culture was a mix of «liberal» and «non-liberal» (partly «Tory» and partly «social - demoratic»)
ideas, which were bound together by a belief in Parliament and the legislatures as the arbiters of social conflict and makers of common rules for the common
weal.