TORONTO - Canadian diplomats in Saudi Arabia say there may be a political tempest brewing as many oil-rich polygamist men look for ways to resettle here with their many wives.
Diplomatic officials said they’re flooded with applications from well-heeled Saudi men with one or more wives and have asked Ottawa for guidelines on if the spouses should be given visas for Canada.
“Bigamy and polygamy are crimes in Canada, but not here in Saudi Arabia,” said Jeff Rogers, the First Secretary of the Embassy of Canada in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Rogers said it is a “regular occurrence” to see men with more than one spouse applying for visas to travel to Canada as visitors, students or businessmen.
“And at times (they have) more than one spouse intending to travel with them,” he told officials in Ottawa in an Oct. 2011 memo obtained through an Access of Information request by lawyer Richard Kurland. “Applicants will at times declare the multiple spouses.”
Rogers told officials of the Dept. of Foreign Affairs there are many men who hide their marriages from embassy staff...Cultural relativism dictates that, soon enough, sharia-based polygamy will become as much a part of our fabulous multiculti tapestry as, say, the plethora of burqas on regular display in downtown Toronto.
What am I saying? Considering the number of burqas on regular display, sharia-style marriage is already here.
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