The Income Tax Act also replaced the term natural parent with legal parent. The change permitting same-sex marriages required that definitions for husband and wife be changed to spouse. Same-sex marriages became legal in all Canadian provinces on the following dates: This made Canada the fourth country to permit same-sex marriages, after the Netherlands On 20 July 2005, the federal Civil Marriage Act came into force, making same-sex marriage legal across Canada. In 2003, Ontario and British Columbia became the first two provinces to legalize That represents a tripling in the number of same-sex marriages across the Of those same-sex couples, 33.4 per cent were married. It showed there were more than 45,000 declared same-sex couples in the country 16.5 per cent of those were married.īy the time of the 2016 census, there were 72,880 declared same-sex couples - 0.9 per cent of the total number of couples. The 2006 census was the first to collect data on legally married same-sex couples. Same-sex marriage became legal on 20 July 2005. At that time, about 0.5 per cent of all Canadian couples reported living in
In 2001, Statistics Canada began collecting information about same-sex partnerships. This rainbow mosaic is painted on a brick wall in the gay quarter of Montreal and signifies gay pride.
