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What are others doing?
Canada is not the first country in the world to address whether and how to legally recognize same-sex unions. Indeed, Canada is coming to the debate later than many countries. Several countries have debated this issue for many years and have come up with a variety of approaches, ranging from same-sex marriage in the Netherlands to the legal recognition of domestic partners, registered partnerships and civil unions in Scandinavia, parts of Europe and parts of the United States. Although some of these approaches appear to be similar, each is quite different, as it has been created to fit the particular society and to comply with the specific constitutional and legal structures in each country. Most countries have decided to retain marriage as an opposite-sex institution, and none has decided to leave marriage exclusively to religion and stop recognizing it in law. In Canada, three provinces —Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba — have passed legislation on the subject, and Alberta has begun public discussions.
In each instance, there has been widespread debate on the approach chosen, and no two approaches have been exactly alike. Moreover, in each instance, the legal effect of the registration is ordinarily restricted to that country, as there is currently no means to ensure recognition of same-sex relationships by other countries.
The wide variety of approaches shows that the issue is complex. A brief summary of some of these models follows:
Within Canada
Four provinces have enacted or are considering laws relating to same-sex unions. Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba have enacted legislation that allows gay and lesbian couples as well as opposite-sex couples to record their relationships in a civil registry. Alberta has set out in its Marriage Act a definition of marriage that requires partners to be of opposite sex for the purposes of solemnization. Alberta, in a bill before their...
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