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Jan 31, 2007
Quickie Link: Ottawa ends discrimination for same-sex couples married outside Canada
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By vanrozenheim
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(Ottawa, Canada) - The Conservative government has quietly scrapped one of the last remnants of official discrimination against gay couples by allowing same-sex couples married outside of Canada to be fully recognized as spouses for immigration purposes. The controversial policy was introduced in June 2004, soon after Quebec became the third province to legalize gay marriage. When same-sex marriage was made legal throughout Canada in 2005, the bar on foreign gay marriages remained in place.
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