Now that the darn nuisance tsunami is more-or-less out of the way of the Liberals’ agenda—or at least they’ve milked all the PR that can out of it— they can carry on with their effort to liberalize Canada into oblivion. Finally, they can, for example, get back to their emergency gay marriage promotion, which has been an itch in their crotch all this time. This gay marriage thing is moving faster than they moved the DART team, God bless ‘em (get it?).
Hopefully nothing else will get in the way of the emergency gay marriage thing. Have all the dead Canadians been counted in Asia yet? No? Well whatever. Somebody will count ‘em.
Then it’s off to another socialist plenary session in one of Quebec’s chi-chi resorts where between hors d’oeuvres they will plan to launch and reinforce more social programs in Canada with our tax dollars, to a country which isn’t quite identical to the Soviet Union yet.
Same-sex marriage law coming in Feb.: Cotler
OTTAWA — A bill to legalize gay marriage from coast to coast will come before Parliament in early February and should be law by summer, says Justice Minister Irwin Cotler.
“It will be introduced and there will be the customary debate,’’ Cotler said Monday in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“I’d like to think that it would pass . . . before the House rises in June.’‘
But even if he’s wrong and the bill can’t muster support from a majority of MPs, it won’t stop the inevitable march toward gay marriage, said Cotler.
He noted that courts in seven provinces and one territory have already struck down the traditional definition of marriage as an institution restricted to opposite-sex couples.
Judges in other jurisdictions would eventually follow suit, with or without the blessing of elected politicians, Cotler suggested.
“If the bill does not pass, the likelihood is that the constitutional development will continue in the other provinces, and we will likely see this issue being arrived at one by one in the courts.
“My view is that this is an issue of minority rights and equality rights.’‘
The only way to thwart the legal evolution, said Cotler, would be to invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution to override the Charter of Rights.
Prime Minister Paul Martin has already said that’s something he won’t do. […]
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