Canada & Same-Sex Marriage

Marriages between individuals of the same sex have been legal in Canada since July 2005. 

The new Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, “has pledged to hold a vote in Parliament on overturning Canada’s same-sex marriage law * * * [which] made Canada the fourth country in the world to legalize gay and lesbian marriage nationwide.”

See Rebecca Cook Dube, Canada’s new PM worries gay couples, USA Today, Feb. 15, 2006, at 8A.