Brief Overview
We lost traditional marriage in Canada in the space of just a few short years. As recently as 1999 the House passed a resolution supporting traditional man woman marriage by a margin of 216 for to 55 against.
Then, in 2000 several European nations led by the Netherlands legalized same sex marriage and the pressure mounted for Canada to do the same in the guise of “equality” and “tolerance.” In addition to the homosexual activists it was actively supported by the Liberal Government, the media and most significantly by liberal activist judges across Canada.
Beginning in British Columbia in 2003, these judges on provincial and territorial courts began to strike down laws limiting marriage to only a man and a woman claiming that the Charter required it. In most of these cases the provincial government did a very poor job defending these laws. The federal government let the 120 day appeal period expire without appealing them so they were locked into law.
Then, claiming the need for national “uniformity” the federal government began pushing for a national law to legalize same sex marriage. In 2004 the government sent its proposed bill, to be known as C-38, to the Supreme Court for a reference. The court said that Parliament could define marriage but, significantly, ducked the issue of whether the Charter required legalizing same sex marriage. Nonetheless, the government claimed throughout the consideration of this bill that the Charter did require forcing same sex marriage on Canada. This is only one of the many dishonest, false and misleading tactics used by the proponents of same sex marriage.
The showdown vote came in June of 2005 and the bill passed by a vote of 158 for, 133 against with 32 liberals that didn’t vote and 4 Bloc that didn’t vote, thus receiving royal assent. Shortly after, the Martin Government fell and the Conservatives promised during the election campaign to revisit the vote. Prime Minister Harper has said that he will bring it before the House “sooner rather than later but not immediately.”
Pro-marriage Canadians are mobilizing to convince Parliament to revisit this critical issue.