Thank you.
Mr. Gora, it's quite disturbing to hear of the cleric in the Toronto area, I believe you said, who made the comment that if he had a choice between Islamic law and Canadian law, he would follow Islamic law. Of course, that's his interpretation of Islamic law; I don't want to give the wrong impression about Islam based on his comments.
However, having said that, one can only imagine what Canada would look like if everybody felt that way. This is a very multicultural, welcoming, accepting, and tolerant country and one in which we all live with respect for one another's language, culture, and so forth. If everybody felt, “Hey, if my faith says this, or my interpretation of my faith says this, I don't care what the Canadian law says”, what kind of a society would we be living in?
Certainly the issue of polygamy is one you touched base on. We had a member of Parliament, I believe the member from Newton—North Delta, stand up in the House and say that we already have polygamy laws in Canada, so why do we need to address the issue? I don't want to politicize this, but certainly it's happening. It's a problem. We know that, and we need to keep focus on it.
I want to focus my question on forced marriage, especially of a young girl, which we certainly believe is barbaric. Somebody could be born and raised in this country and be forced into a marriage whether she likes it or not. If she doesn't, it is the culture of that particular family to ridicule her out of the family unit. In many cases there's physical violence as well.
Can you comment on how the proposed amendments in this bill will prevent young girls from being taken off Canadian soil for this to happen?