This is the most shameful of the Conservative Party's shenanigans yet. http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/12/canadian-govt-dissolves-thousands-of-same-sex-marriages-including-dan-savages/


A more impassioned but less SFW article can be found here:

http://www.straight.com/article-583251/vancouver/dan-savage-stephen-harper-stop-screwing-my-marriage-motherfucker

lolwut

that's just dumb.

Pathetic, spineless politics. I'm more annoyed by the cowardice than anything.

...wait what?

Is this genuine? It's been strangely lacking in reporting by the UK press. They normally love this kind of thing.

Pity, I feel sorry for those couples. This is getting pathetic.

That's pretty odd. The marriages would no be recognized either way when (if) they return home, so what is the point? Just conservative pandering I guess?

It seems more like a precedent refusing to recognize them for purposes of divorce. While it's still terrible I'm not sure if it works legally to immediately remove something like say, legal inheritance for the married couples, they'd probably need more case law to remove that, and so on.

When it say native country, does that mean this action only affect immigrants, or does it also effect Canadian citizens with a different origin? So it means now Canadian people are also governed by laws of other countries? That sounds ridiculous to me

Not sure how good the source is, but: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/12/foreigners-same-sex-marriages-in-limbo

Another Canadian paper: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1114430--conservatives-suggest-divorce-law-could-be-revised-to-help-same-sex-couples
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Unless Canada is different in this regard, it would not at all be similar to taking away a voting right since the gay couple in question are not citizens of Canada. That looks to be the crux of this whole issue, that the couple are not citizens and that the law didn't take that into account for divorce.

Interesting issue, though. The wife and I were married in Gibraltar, not the US, while we were stationed in Spain. I wonder if that means we'd need to go back to Gib to get a divorce?

Pretty sensationalized reporting. It's a technical issue, not an act of bigotry.

Married Gay and Lesbian Canadian citizens are not affected by this issue regardless of origin.

If they're talking about people who go Canada just to get married, and then leave for a home country that wouldn't recognize the marriage, then maybe it's a legal issue instead of omg they're attacking gays and lesbians again. Sucks for the couples caught up in this though.

Yea, this scenario makes more sense, but still kinda feel sorry for those get caught up.

The divorce laws in Canada don't cover non citizen marriages so therefore it defaults to the laws by their originating country. If the country you're from doesn't allow same sex marriage, your marriage is then rendered null and void. Nothing personal, just a flaw in the current Canadian laws.