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B.C. pops the question: Is polygamy a crime?
Dirk Meissner writes:
Canadians and the justice system need clarity on whether polygamy is a crime, British Columbia’s attorney general said Thursday in announcing he will ask the B.C. Supreme Court for an opinion on the federal law barring multiple marriage.
Mike de Jong said the government has decided to seek the opinion rather than appeal last month’s court ruling that quashed polygamy charges against the leaders of a controversial religious sect in southeastern B.C.
The feds will also intervene. Their position is that polygamy is a crime in this country.
YouTube Video Entered as Evidence in B.C. Trial
The B.C. Supreme Court entered a YouTube video of a Victoria man yesterday, the first time the Crown has done so in that province.
“AR-15 Makes Swiss Cheese Out of a Couch,” now removed from the site, was used as evidence against Brian Lynn Morrison for a number of charges, including the use of a prohibited weapon in a careless manner and without a licence or registration certificate.
The video allegedly shows Morrison demonstrating the weapon and explaining the silencer, saying,
It’s so powerful it goes right through everything.
