Government benefits for polygamy

Many are taking the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on Sharia law as a sign that accommodation of Muslim values and laws have gone to far in Britain. Not, however, to some Canadian Muslims, who decry the British government for being too strict on polygamous marriages. In secular Ontario provincial law allows all foreign religious marriages to be recognized, and it seems to collect welfare benefits for each wife. The province denies this is happening, but the President of the Canadian Society of Muslims claims otherwise. So while Sharia law is not on the books, some of its tenets appear to be creeping in through unrelated social policy.