That's just silly. No, it's not regressing...not yet, anyhow.

Prime Minister Trudeau is, so we have been assured, about to legalize cannabis.
The last traces criminalizing abortion are about to be removed from Canada's laws.
FGM is a criminal act, and no one is trying to repeal that section of the Criminal Code.

Sure, there's the usual fringe at all ends trying to limit everyone's free speech but their own, but that's silly too.

This is just a sappy human interest story.