On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world, and the first country outside Europe, to legalize same-sex worldwide nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which provided a gender-neutral marriage definition. Court decisions, starting in 2003, had already legalized same-sex marriage in eight out of ten provinces and one of three territories, whose residents comprised about 90% of Canada's population. Before passage of the Act, more than 3,000 same-sex couples had already married in those areas. Most legal benefits commonly associated with marriage had been extended to cohabiting same-sex couples since 1999.I am proud of this as a Canadian because there are many countries which do not tolerate same-sex marriage and to be a country who accepts love as it is, is really amazing. The United States just recently made same sex marriage legal in all 50 states and that was about a year ago. So to know that there are people in Canada who are happily married and living a healthy live with the ones they love and not being discriminated against feels really great.
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