An Omnibus bill is a single  bill presented to parliament which includes many issues, often in an attempt to bury the most controversial questions in a whole mass of  proposed legislation  where everything must be approved at the same time.  In  Canada, the  1969   the Omnibus Bill passed by Pierre Trudeau’s government  was the first time Canadians had faced that challenge when  the Liberal Government of Trudeau, attempted to change the face of our country by dealing with important ethical questions as health issues.

The Bill which dealt with a multitude of practices inscribed in the criminal code such as divorce, abortion, homosexuality ,  opened the way to transform the Canadian criminal code which, according to the Minister John Turner was an outdated 19^th Century document.   This play  therefore has a serious legal basis and followed through Trudeau’s desire to “keep the  state out of the bedrooms of the nation” …

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