Framework for Parental Rights Should Be Left to Parliament to Decide Rather Than Unelected Courts, MP Says

Framework for Parental Rights Should Be Left to Parliament to Decide Rather Than Unelected Courts, MP Says
The B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver in a file photo. Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images
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The B.C. judge who recently declared that a woman in a polyamorous family relationship be named as a legal parent, alongside the child’s birth parents, said the ruling will bridge “a gap in the legislation,” but some say definitions of parent should be settled by elected officials, not judges.

Conservative MP Arnold Viersen says he would rather have Parliament re-examine questions of marriage and parental rights than leave it to the courts.

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