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Same sex marriage in New Brunswick: The province of New Brunswick does not currently issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.
New Brunswick's Justice MinisterBrad Green announced in September2004 that the Government of New Brunswick will not follow in the footsteps of Nova Scotia in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He said that the definition is a federal matter, and the province will recognize only marriages between a man and a woman until the federal government comes up with another definition. Premier Bernard Lord indicated that if and when the federal government passes such legislation, his government will comply with it. [1] (http://nb.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/nb-same-sexnb20041209.html)
In the meantime, Art Vautour-Toole and Wayne Toole, along with a couple known only as "A & T," are suing the government for their right to marry. "A & T" were married in Toronto, and had been able to get their last names changed in New Brunswick supposedly because the clerk did not realize they were both women.
External links
Same Sex Marriage in Canada (http://www.samesexmarriage.ca)
Thousands protest against same-sex marriage (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/10/18/229898-cp.html)
Brad Green prefers to ignore the judgment of 18 Justices in 6 regions of Canada and the precedent case law of Canada's Supreme Court (Judges in the breakthrough Ontario marriage case said Canada's Supreme Court clearly ruled in favour of equal recognition for same-sex relationships in the 1999 case M v H).
NewBrunswick recently lost an attempt to maintain discriminatory practices in adoption legislation, yet Green seems determined to fight on.
successful in changing her name after an out-of-province same-sex marriage, however the change was allowed because nobody at the bureau noticed her spouse (who presumably was not present) was a woman.
Same-sex marriage was originally legalized as a result of court cases in which provincial or territorial justices ruled existing bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
According to the Constitution of Canada, the definition of marriage is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government—this interpretation was upheld by a December 9, 2004 opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada (Re Same-Sex Marriage).
However, despite the passage of the Civil Marriage Act into law, the revised immigration policy (as of October 2005) still considers all same-sex marriages which took place outside Canada (e.g., The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) to be invalid.
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