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Originally posted by Snakeeye+Sep 9 2005, 04:33 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Snakeeye @ Sep 9 2005, 04:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> And that is the problem entirely: Forcing a woman to choose her god (as interpreted by others) or her human rights is going to see human rights lose almost every time. [/b]
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Women wouldn't have to choose between God and human rights -- these arbitration panels would still be branches of the Canadian goverment (established under the Ontario Arbitration Act) and are threrfore subject to the Charter.
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and quite frankly, I am not certian how this is even constitutional, as it is a very clear violation of the seperation of curch and state.
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That's the US.
Canada doesn't have a Constitutionally mandated separation of Church and State.
As per
Wikipedia:
"Again like most countries, the specific form of separation unique to the US does not apply here. There is no restriction on government funding of 'faith-based' activities."