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(Toronto, Ontario) A new poll released Monday shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians are comfortable with same-sex marriage.
The Envirnonics survey commissioned by Canadians for Equal Marriage found that across the country of those with an opinion on gay marriage 64 percent said same-sex couples should have the same right to civil marriage as opposite-sex couples. Only 36 percent disagreed.
Support was highest in Quebec where 67 percent supported gay marriage.
The poll results were almost identical to a survey of Ontario voters released last week. That survey, by Leger for Toronto Life Magazine showed that support for same-sex marriage was at 60 percent.
Monday's national poll also showed there is no interest across the country for reopening the marriage debate - something that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to do in the fall.
Environics found that 62 percent of respondents consider the matter settled while only 27% want another vote and 11% did not express an opinion.
Even a majority of voters who support Harper's Conservative Party - 52 percent - said they oppose reopening the issue.
This month marked the third anniversary of equal marriage in Canada. On June 10, 2003, the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples following the historic Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that day.
Last year the then Liberal government passed legislation extending same-sex marriage across the country. Since then, over 10,000 same-sex couples have been legally married in Canada.
Harper announced earlier this month that he will introduce a motion in the fall asking MPs to take up the marriage issue fulfilling a campaign promise to the party's right of center base, mainly in the west.
"These polls confirm what we already knew - that 2/3 of Canadians consider the matter settled and want to move on," said Laurie Arron, National Coordinator of Canadians for Equal Marriage.
"While equality for minority groups should never be subject to the tyranny of the majority, it's encouraging that so many Canadians, and so many Conservative voters, are against having another vote."
©365Gay.com 2006
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