Activist Parliamentarians?

Most Canadians have probably never heard of the CCP. And it's budget
is only a little under $3-million a year. Yet no other federal
program or law has done more damage to Canadian democracy. No other
has so fundamentally altered Canadian society without recourse to
Parliament. -Lorne Gunter, National Post, September 8th 2006, page A16

You know, I'd have a lot more sympathy for this sort of position if, even after Parliament passed a law expanding rights to include a previously disenfranchised group, conservatives didn't then push to reopen that same debate in the hopes that this time the answer might be different.

Apparently Parliamentarians can be just as activist as judges and interest groups can be, if you disagree with them.