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Canadians, before voting read this!
Ok, they claim that they want tighter rule against child porn, but when you read the article, it seems that these new laws could infringe on mainstream porn....
Hard to vote for Martin ( Ali Baba and the 40 thieves) but between Martin and Harper, I think we are better with the thief than with the right wing religious Harper...
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Harper: Martin failed to strengthen porn laws
MAUGERVILLE, N.B. (CP) - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is maintaining his attack on Paul Martin over what Harper says is a Liberal failure to address child pornography.
The Liberal leader failed to strengthen the law against child porn by voting against an Opposition motion in the Commons to close the "artistic merit" loophole, which exempts some art from anti-pornography legislation, Harper charged Saturday.
Opposition motions are routinely voted down.
Opponents of the Canadian Alliance motion said it was too broad and would have banned some legitimate art.
The issue of child pornography flared this week with the guilty plea from Michael Briere, who admitted on Thursday to the sex-slaying of 10-year-old Holly Jones in Toronto in 2003.
He admitted he had been watching kiddie porn on the Internet when he decided to grab a child.
On Friday, the Conservatives issued a news release suggesting the prime minister supports child porn.
The Conservatives withdrew and re-worded the release and blamed the initial e-mail on over-caffeinated youngsters in the party's election war room who have been working long hours for nearly a year.
That was not enough for Martin: "This is personal. I'm a father; I'm a husband. He crossed the line and he should apologize."
Harper offered a half-hearted mea culpa, saying the headline on the initial release was too strong.
"I've had them re-issue the heading," he said, but he didn't apologize for anything else.
On Saturday, Harper told about 200 supporters, "Quite frankly, Paul Martin's record on child pornography is shameful and just another reason why his government must be defeated on June 28."
The latest ugly campaign episode comes as new polls show the front-running parties becalmed in the eye of the hurricane-like rhetoric.
An Ipsos-Reid poll, conducted after the leadership debates of Monday and Tuesday, suggested Conservative support had stalled at 32 per cent and the Liberals were down two percentage points to 29 per cent.
The NDP also dropped a point to 16 per cent of respondents, the Bloc Quebecois was at 12 per cent and the Green party was up a point to seven per cent.
The poll of 1,000 Canadians, accurate within plus or minus 3.1 per cent, was mirrored by a slighter smaller Ekos survey.
The Conservatives were at 31.4 per cent, suggested Ekos, down about two points from a week earlier, while the Liberals were down a point to 29 per cent. The NDP was up two percentage points in the Ekos poll to 20.4 per cent, the Bloc was at 14 per cent and the Green party 4.3 per cent.
The child porn law came under legal challenge in the 1990s from John Robin Sharpe, a retired town planner from British Columbia who was charged after police raided his home and found photos of under-age boys engaged in sexual acts as well as a collection of stories written by Sharpe.
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld most of the federal law that makes production, dealing and simple possession of child pornography a crime.
But the court said it would be wrong to outlaw material such as personal journals, fictional writings, and drawings that are imaginary and don't involve exploitation of an actual child.
Sharpe was subsequently convicted on several counts. But he was acquitted of the charges related to his writings, which a trial judge described as "morally repugnant" but not totally lacking in artistic merit.
Legislation introduced by the Liberals in December 2002 in response to the Sharpe case proposed to tighten the definition of artistic merit.
It was criticized by legitimate writers, film makers and others who feared it would open them to prosecution. Critics on the right condemned it for not abolishing the artistic merit defence.
The bill died on the order paper when the election was called.
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics...506389-cp.html
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I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !
But I can't figure out how he can breathe or type , at the same time ....
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