That was most recently tested in Canadian courts by a former Toronto city councilor, Tony O’Donohue, in 2002. The Irish-born civil engineer, then 69, supported republicanism for Canada and challenged the Act of Settlement law that bans a Roman Catholic from becoming king or queen. The case was dismissed in 2003 and an appeal was denied.
Joanne McGarry is executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League, a Canadian lay organization “devoted to combating anti-Catholic defamation.” She told UPI in a telephone interview that traditionally in Canadian politics, lawmakers’ personal beliefs have mostly been tolerated.
“I think believers can’t be expected to chuck it [faith] at the door and stop being believers once they’re in Parliament,” she said.
McGarry said she’s noticed a trend developing in the past 20 years of groups calling for a more secular government.
“There’s a concern, I think, that things tend to get pushed out” of politics and the judiciary when religious groups such as hers intervene or challenge laws on conservative issues such as prostitution or abortion.
Toronto Escorts: Politics without religion? Hell, no.
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments
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Toronto Strip Clubs: Stripper disputes drug cops arrest
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments
A former Montreal stripper denied suggestions that she was a suspect in the murder of a Montreal drug dealer after Toronto drug squad cops arrested her with five kilograms of the drug in 1997.
Aida Fagundo was testifying Wednesday at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers, whom she alleged assaulted her, stole her $20,000 diamond ear-rings and $10,000 in cash and pressured her to admit the cachet of packaged cocaine belonged to her.
Defence lawyer Harry Black was cross-examining the 48-year-old Cuban immigrant as she was speaking via video link from Spain, where she now lives.
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Fagundo entertained at the Solid Gold strip club in Montreal where a Toronto dealer named Andy Ioakim frequented almost every weekend and was the buyer who arranged for five kilograms of cocaine to be delivered from Montreal to Toronto, court heard earlier.
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