Justice Minister declares all same-sex marriages legal and valid (Canada)
All same sex marriages performed in Canada are legal and the law will be changed to ensure that divorce is readily available to non-residents who were married in the country, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says.
Speaking at a Toronto luncheon Friday, Mr. Nicholson blamed the Liberal government that preceded his for not filling a legislative gap that has left thousands of same-sex couples in an agonizing position of being unable to divorce should they feel a need to.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/justice-minister-declares-all-same-sex-marriages-legal-and-valid/article2301691/
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(50,482 posts)the CONS are trying to sneak in an attack on same-sex marriages by trying to say there was a gap when there was none.
"But the marriage law already applies to all marriages performed in Canada, according to Kathleen Lahey, a lawyer who represented before the Supreme Court of Canada one of the couples fighting to be married.
Lahey, who also appeared in front of a parliamentary committee when the government was drafting the law, says there's nothing in the Civil Marriage Act that needs to be changed to make it apply to non-residents.
"Plain and simple, it is totally valid here. Its a quite tragic attempt, really, to attack overseas same-sex marriages sort of from the side."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/13/pol-same-sex-marriage-nicholson.html
The "Harper Government" and it's supporters are rabidly homophobic and, with re-opening the Civil Marriage Act for amendments, in order to change that which does not need change, smells of back-door crap to me.