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Originally Posted by peter12
Well, there's two issues here and really neither one really deals with homophobia.
1) The man is being deported. This is a legal matter.
2) The Minister will not secede, most likely on legal grounds.
Do you think that the law should be overruled in certain circumstances in cases of moral compassion?
I say, yes, and I'm a conservative. Nothing to do with my opinion of his homosexuality.
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Ministers always have the power to intervene, it is their prerogative, that is the beauty of a Westminster Parliamentry system. The fact she refrained from doing so is indicative in my opinion of a policy direction of her ministry. The fact that she did not even recognize that the man seems to clearly be a protected person under
IRPA and the UN Convention Relating to the Status on Refugees seems to indicate at best incompetence, at worst discrimination. The fact that she did not at least
view this video
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ab_1172940415 (warning, the video is quite graphic) to see what corporal punishment is like in Malaysia, or if she did
view it, felt that it was not cruel and unusual punishment is well almost unbelievable. That is what the guy could expect to receive for being "gay" in Malaysia.
The lady is at best incompetent for flat out refusing to consider the case and at worst questions have to be seriously raised about bias in the Minister's office. And the day that Thomas Mulclair rose to speak to this issue, the catcalls from the government side were completely uncalled for and provided interesting insight, in my humble opinion.
To answer your final question, yes I beleive the "law" should be overturned on cases of moral compassion. The "law" actually allows moral compassion to be grounds for a Minister to overturn a deportation order.