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Friday, November 13, 2009

Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

A new citizenship guide for potential immigrants to Canada, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, flatly declares that new Canadians cannot engage in "barbaric" cultural practices such as genital mutilation and "honour killings." The new guide, released Thursday by Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, says in a section called "Equality of Women and Men" that such practices are illegal and severely punishable under Canada's criminal laws

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