Thursday, October 18, 2007
Can We Drop The Pretense?
Harper wants an election and he wants it badly (not that there's anything wrong with that). Mr. Clever is even stripping opposition amendments to the crime legislation in order to get them to vote against it (then going whining to the electorate that the meanies hate victims of crime). Man, if I wasn't addicted to politics, I would really be turned off by this crap.
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In fairness, those bills already went through the Commons, and they're being brought back as amended (by agreement with the NDP last spring, in the main).
ReplyDeleteWhich is an important point.
My understanding at the time I wrote this was that the government was going to strip out even the amendments put forward by the NDP. Now I am hearing that they will just not allow any more. That's different. I will wait and see which turns out to be the case.
ReplyDeleteIf they brought them back as originally introduced, there'd be cause to be that upset, absolutely.
ReplyDeleteDoes the age of consent law have provisions for situations when the individuals are pretty close together in age, even though they're under 16?
ReplyDeleteYes. 14 and 15 year olds can sleep with partners who are less than five years older than they are.
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the NDP amendments, I believe.
ReplyDeleteOh, was it?
ReplyDeleteReasonable enough. The usual Romeo-and-Juliet exemptions are within two years, but five is fine, too. Main point being that the law is/should be directed at older predators, not at teen sex.