Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is introducing legislation and announcing new measures Wednesday to ban immigrants in polygamous marriages from coming to Canada. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander will introduce legislation later today to ban people in polygamous and forced marriages from immigrating to Canada.
Alexander says such practices are "incompatible with Canadian values."
He and Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch made the announcement this morning at a news conference in the Toronto area.
The government also wants to protect women and girls who seek to escape polygamous or forced marriages.
The 2013 speech from the throne promised action on forced marriages and so-called honour killings, an issue that has concerned the Harper government, in light of cases including the multiple murders in 2009 of female members of Montreal's Shafia family.
"Sadly, millions of women and girls continue to be brutalized by violence, including through the inhumane practice of early and forced marriage. This barbarism is unacceptable to Canadians," the throne speech said.
A government source says that globally, between 2004 and 2014, an estimated 100 million girls, will have been forced to marry before their 18th birthdays, often in polygamous unions.
Alexander says the bill, if passed, would eliminate early and forced marriages from Canada's immigration system and the country as a whole.
He says there are "at least hundreds" of cases of immigrants in polygamous marriages in Canada.
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