B.C. to crack down on polygamists
Vancouver life would be much easier for British Columbia’s Attorney General Wally Oppal, if a call came into authorities and the allegedly married a young person in the polygamous community in Texas.
Under increasing pressure the Government to take measures in the polygamous marriage, in the commune of Bountiful in BC’s interior, Oppal said, is that nothing can be done until a complaint was filed.
The government has even tried to potential applicants, sending officials to interview and talk with women, children and men in Bountiful. Despite overtures, not a complaint, the community.
Since Texas composed of officials from Eldorado-raids on 3 April and 437 children removed from their families, who were all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a sect dissenting Mormon, BC government was invited, but steps in their own backyard.
For years, Bountiful, a polygamous community on the edge of the town of Creston, escaped criminal, although polygamy is illegal. The head of one of Commons is polygamous, believed to protect religious rights.
For now, B.C. The government is in a deadlock.
“It was not a lack of guidance, free consultation of the whole country, with the law, in writing, professors and other people ask why we did not go in advance,” said Oppal. “It’s a small thing of witnesses. There is none. ”
The government has asked a special prosecutor to prepare a report, which came four days after the fall of Texas and the recommendations of the province’s top Tribunal a decision on Canada’s polygamy laws.
The special prosecutor Len Doust, one of Vancouver’s top criminal lawyers, said the Court of Appeal must decide whether religious rights claims are constitutionally valid.
Last year, another special prosecutor, counsel for the same province - all this is frustrating for Oppal, who prefer to move more aggressive.
But Winston Blackmore, the leader of a polygamous, two municipalities in BC, said Attorney General must comply with the Council of Jurists, he was appointed.
“We get good advice and their lawyers,” said Blackmore this week. “It is under pressure, but you know, this is not what I wake up tomorrow morning to deal with them.”
Blackmore’s said, it is shameful that officials in Texas, because of an alleged complaint filed by a girl of 16 years. The complainant was not.
While some members may have ties to Texas polygamous community, BC, connections are not yet final have been made.
Still, the federal government confirmed yesterday that at least one Canadian citizen has lived in the Texas ranch of the raid by U.S. authorities.
“Contact with the lawyer as representatives of Canada and support the provision,” a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said
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