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Originally Posted by jayswin
I guess I'm slightly confused by your point then (and that very well could be my fault as I was skimming before posting). In your original post quoted above you asked how you can be supportive of immigration when they don't conform to local laws and social norms.
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Because most immigrants move to find a better place to live for their family. I speak from experience, as my own family moved to Canada from Iceland in the early 80s.
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Which - and this is where I might have you wrong - seems you want them to follow social norms and progressive beliefs as well as laws? And I was just stating that a country should only expect new immigrants to follow a country's laws, nothing more. Everything beyond that you just HOPE that they start conforming and accepting the same beliefs we do.
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I don't care about personal religious beliefs, we have hindu's, we have all kinds of religious Canadians, none of them have wanted to set up family "courts" to deal with marriage, and other issues which our government and laws clearly deal with.