Undeterred by the humiliation of Texas legal authorities, British Columbian lawmen are moving ahead with plans to prosecute their own polygamous Mormon spin-off. B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal announced this week his special prosecutor will push towards prosecution of members of a FLDS splinter group in Bountiful, Canada, on charges of polygamy and sexual assault.

Unlike FLDS leaders in Texas, a Bountiful leader, Winston Blackmore, left, openly admits he has many wifes and dozens of kids. Never shy around media, Blackmore sounds like he's relishing a confrontation with Canada's justice system. Blackmore threw down on Oppal in an email to the Canadian Press:

Mr. Oppal seems determined to involve himself in religious persecution. It can't possibly be about polygamy. It must be about his own religious bias and now he wants the Liberal government to persecute some of the citizens that they have an obligation to serve and protect.

Meanwhile on the other side of Canada, Ontario leaders are reluctant to take on a cheeky polygamist — this one in the Muslim community.

Imam Aly Hindy, leader of the Toronto Salahuddin Islamic Centre, is trying to legitimize polygamy and other aspects of fundamentalist Islam, saying:

If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that.

Hindy joins Bountiful's Blackmore in arguing that religious liberty, as guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, trumps any law against polygamy.