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Dec 08, 2006
Articles: Same-sex marriage motion defeated by wide margin
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By vanrozenheim
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(OTTAWA, CANADA) - Parliamentarians today re-affirmed the legality of same-sex marriage in Canada by voting down a Conservative motion to re-open the controversial debate. A total of 175 members of Parliament rejected a Tory motion “to call on government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages”. A total of 123 MPs supported the idea of re-visiting the issue.
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