I was reading in the Toronto Star about a man who is suing Canada's federal government because he believes that it should have screened his wife for the HIV virus when she immigrated from Hong Kong.
The man has been infected and his wife was convicted for aggavated assualt and criminal negligence causing bodily harm in 2007. She is appealing this conviction.
He is going after $33 million in his civil lawsuit.
If he wins the case, this will go down in my books as equal to the money doled out to the person who spilled hot coffee on himself. Here's why.
This guy didn't marry a shy, oriental girl. This Thai woman was a former dancer at the Zanzibar club on Yonge Street in Toronto. In case you don't know, the Zanzibar has been a strip joint for years. Shouldn't that have been a red flag that this man should get his future wife checked out thoroughly before he got married?
If a couple considering matrimony really loves each other, there should be nothing wrong for both of them to consent to a medical examination for all sorts of things with full disclosure of the result to the other.
Maybe I don't have all of the facts, but for this man to blame the government for his mistake is shifting the blame too much. He made a big mistake. He has AIDs, and I am sorry that he is in this position. It's time he realizes that he has to live with his bad decision and quit blaming others. Where did all of his responsibility go in this case? Perhaps his marrying this girl shows that love is blind. It also seems that his anger is showing equal blindness to the role he played in all of this.
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