With regard to the last response we got from Mr. Muise, I should point out to him and to the committee that the province of British Columbia has a marriage age of 16. So the point he is making is irrelevant, quite frankly, to the actual situation. What is going on in that particular community in B.C. is about polygamy; it's about sexual abuse, if one accepts the facts, or at least the allegations of facts, on the surface. This change in law would not change anything at all with regard to that community.
On November 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.