From David Warren, writing in The Ottawa Citizen:
That this test case will not only proceed, but succeed, almost goes without saying. Even the attorney general of British Columbia doubted his chances with the Charter, when he brought polygamy charges in January against Blackmore, and Jim Oler. This was after a delay of about half a century: for the polygamous cult has been established openly in Bountiful since the era of Peyton Place (the late 1950s). The very fact that the authorities had not found the guts to enforce Section 293 of the Criminal Code, in all this time, will now be counted against the law itself.
That the legalization of polygamy will have more immediate practical consequences than same-sex marriage can be easily seen. It will make Canada the first country in the western world to be compelled to accept the multiple wives of immigrants from such countries as Saudi Arabia, where polygamy is legal; and others, as refugees from where it is not.
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