Tory convention in Ottawa
Posted Jun 11, 2011 10:22 pm.
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The Conservative Party has toughened its stance on justice issues, but slightly watered down its position on same-sex marriage.
The party has dropped a reference from its official policy that a Conservative government would support legislating defining marriage as between one woman and one man.
The policy now reads only that the Conservative Party would support such a law.
Delegates were meeting in Ottawa this weekend to review party policy and in rounds of voting this afternoon gave the yay or nay to more than two dozens changes.
Among other changes, the party has now decided that it should be two strikes, not three before someone is labeled a dangerous offender.
But they voted down a resolution that would see Canadians who take up arms against the Canadian Forces stripped of their citizenship.
Any measures approved by the convention aren’t binding on the government.
