Introduction1. I thank the Honourable Members for their comments. Court Judgment on s377A2. I will first address Mr Derrick Goh’s question about the recent Court of Appeal judgment on the constitutional challenge to Section 377A (s377A) of the Penal Code. 3. AGC is looking at the judgment carefully. 4. The Government has explained its stand. Prime Minister Lee said in Parliament in 2007, when the Penal Code was amended but s377A was left unchanged, that we want to be “a stable society with traditional heterosexual family values,....
Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill – Wrap-Up Speech by Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law Mr Speaker, I thank Members for their questionsWorkers’ Party’s Arguments1. I will first address some of the points made by members of the Workers’ Party (WP). 2. Mr Singh spoke about the need for engagement and responding to feedback. But it appears to me that the Workers’ Party has really not substantively engaged with anything that I have said.3. ....
Second Reading of Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill – Speech by Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law Introduction 1. Mr Speaker, I beg to move, “That the Bill be now read a second time.”2. This Bill covers two aspects: dealing with online Hostile Information Campaigns (HICs) conducted by foreign parties – I will refer to this as the “HIC Part”. 3. And the second part, dealing with foreign interference through local proxies.....