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   From: weasel@stew.yum   
      
   On 4/3/2014 12:26 PM, Connie Eggelston, aka Jennifer Wainwright, aka   
   Karen Gordon wrote:   
      
   > This is the most incompetent government we've had in generations.  Look   
   > at what Harper is doing - COMPELLING spouses to testify against their   
   > husbands (that will be the usual scenario).  How many women will be   
   > killed by their spouses before they've had a chance to do that?  And how   
   > many of them will be safe after the guy is released from jail or prison?   
   >   
   > I don't think the Harper government could think from a female's   
   > perspective if they were fed estrogen every day for 10 years.  These   
   > guys are more dangerous than the Republicans under Bush.   
   > And that's saying a lot.   
      
   Hey Connie, this was in the Conservative-hating Toronto Star, it's a   
   little different than your knee-jerk emotional babble:   
      
   "Harper made no mention of a proposed change to the Canada Evidence Act   
   — contained in a few paragraphs in the 68-page bill — that would give   
   prosecutors free hand to force spouses to testify against each other.   
      
   The lawyers said they did not expect the measure would have much impact   
   given that spousal testimony comes into play in relatively few cases,   
   and compelled evidence may be unreliable anyway."   
      
   http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/04/03/conservative_victi   
   s_bill_would_force_spouses_to_testify_in_court.html   
      
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