It seems the Liberals started the whole polygamy issue, about which the Liberals said it was Stephen Harper who brought it up for political purposes as just another argument against changing the current definition of marriage.
So they lied. They lied through their teeth. To you and your mom and your son and daughter—they lied to all of us. Access to Information should give pause to politicians and prevent them from lying through their teeth. But the Liberal Minister of Gay Justice Irwin Cotler hasn’t gotten the memo yet.
Maybe honesty doesn’t “flow from” liberals.
Starting from the middle of the Vancouver Sun story:
Asked on Jan. 20 about the study project, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said it was prompted solely by the B.C. case and that there was “no connection” to same-sex marriage.
“Any attempt to make that kind of connection is simply a way of confusing distinguishable issues in every regard,” he said.
Tory Leader Stephen Harper, who opposes same-sex marriage legislation now being debated in the House of Commons, referred to the project in criticizing the governing Liberals. He was pilloried by Liberal politicians and others for making any link to polygamy.
And here’s the juicy bits:
The federal government ordered urgent research on polygamy last month partly to allay concerns about the potential adverse impact of its same-sex legislation, a newly released document shows.
The wording of the original research proposal runs contrary to suggestions from the justice minister and others that the $150,000 polygamy project had no connection to the same-sex debate.
“The question of polygamy has also arisen lately in connection with the current public debate on civil marriage and the legal recognition of same-sex unions,” says the three-page document from Status of Women Canada.
“Concerns have been raised by some that in changing one aspect of the legal capacity to marry to allow equal access to civil marriage for same-sex couples, all of the other aspects of legal capacity may also be vulnerable to attack under the Charter, including the ban on the practice of polygamy.”
“The government will likely be called upon to reassure Canadians that it is possible to hold the line on civil marriage, by retaining the requirement for monogamy and other restrictions in minimum age and marriage between close relatives.”
The document—written by Vesna Radulovic, senior research analyst for the agency—was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
The research project, with half the funding provided by the Justice Department, was in large part designed to help Ottawa weather any legal challenge in British Columbia to the ban on polygamy.
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s bold-faced lies being told by politicians to the entire nation.
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