Statement made on 07 July 2010 by Senator Pana Merchant
Hon. Pana Merchant:
Honourable senators, my question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who is quoted in The Globe and Mail regarding Bill S-4. I ask her whether she was the source of the confusion about the constitutional division of legal powers in Canada, or whether she wants to blame the author of The Globe and Mail article as being the source of this ignorance.
The article, which I will make available to honourable senators if they wish, states:
Provincial divorce laws do not apply on reserves.
Did the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell The Globe and Mail that our divorce laws are provincial; and did she tell The Globe and Mail that our divorce laws — which, of course, are federal — do not apply on reserves, when they, in fact, apply everywhere in Canada?
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