Fresh off the heels of Elections Canada's decision to allow women to wear full burqas when they vote, the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has slammed the decision, calling it a "subversion of the will of Parliament": http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/09/09/harper-veil.html.
I'm with the Prime Minister on this one, but does anyone really think that the ultra politically correct court system in Canada won't back Elections Canada in this dispute?
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Stephen Harper didn't even read his own Canada Elections Act before criticizing Elections Canada. The fact is that the procedures for voter identification outlined by Elections Canada are taken exactly from Harper's legislation. EC did not make them up.
Nodoubt the EC spokesman will make this point clear at the Monday press conference.
Harper will end up looking like a fool for criticizing his own legislation.
Check out Section 143 of the Act.
Yeah, but also check out Part1, Section 7 of the Act,which states that each elector is entitled to only one vote. So, what's to prevent a burqa-wearing person from voting more than once, under the protection of Section 142 where another elector can sign an oath for them, in lieu of providing id? The whole Act is therefore flawed and contradicts itself.
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