Ontario Premier rejects use of Shariah law

[sugarimp]

CBC News

Premier Dalton McGuinty said today Ontario will reject the use of Shariah law and will move to prohibit all religious-based tribunals to settle family disputes such as divorce.His announcement comes after hundreds of demonstrators around the world this week protested a proposal to let Ontario residents use Islamic law for settling family

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[verredo]

I was really relieved when I learned that. In Québec, the possibility of such tribunals pushed the government (with at its head a muslim woman) to create a law against such Islamic tribunals in the province. But I think we also do have Catholic, Jewish and if I'm not wrong also Jehovah witnesses' tribunals (as in Ontario). I would be happy if all those tribunals lost their tribunal status, and became only optional places to get religious advice if you wish, without any legal implications (in French I'd say "force de loi", but I don't know how to translate). Maybe the good of this Islamic tribunals "threat" (other people would call it otherwise) was to make us aware of the other faith-based tribunals, which most of us didn't know anything about. (Please excuse the final "about", I never know how to make good sentences

[sugarimp]

The whole idea of tribunals just seems old to me- it had its place in the homogenous, but in a large multicultural country?