Report: Canadian Parliament To Vote This Month On Revisiting Gay Marriage

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http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091306canada.htm

The Canadian government will introduce a motion to re-open the issue of same-sex marriage the week of September 25 a Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The French language La Presse reports that the motion will be presented shortly after Parliament resumes sitting and quoting party sources the paper says that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper expects to lose the vote.

"Our first option would be not to have a vote, but given it's a government commitment we're pleased it's happening sooner rather than later," Gilles Marchildon of LGBT rights group Egale Canada told 365Gay.com.

The former Liberal government legalized same-sex marriage last year after courts in most provinces struck down a federal law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. (story)