Poll: Most Back Tories Same-. Plan
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Election/2005/12/16/1355808-sun.html
By Stephanie Rubec
16th December, 2005
OTTAWA -- More than half of Canadian voters back Conservative Leader Stephen
Harper's call for a free Commons vote on same-. marriage, according to a
new Leger Marketing/Sun Media poll.
The poll of 2,013 Canadians conducted Dec. 9-13 found that 55% agreed the
issue should be decided by parliamentarians.
Leger Marketing CEO Jean-Marc Leger said the results show that Canadians
aren't ready to put the issue to rest.
"Overall the majority of the people said yes, but this debate has not
ended," Leger said.
Considered a mistake by many pundits, Harper promised in the early days of
the Christmas election campaign that a Conservative government would reopen
the divisive debate and allow all MPs to vote freely on the issue.
Conservative MP Jason Kenney said yesterday that the new poll proves his
leader is in step with Canadians.
"This reflects how the Conservative Party is more in touch with mainstream
Canadian thinking and the Liberals are captive to insider political
correctness rather than reflecting mainstream majority opinion," Kenney
said.
MPs first cast their vote in June to change the traditional definition of
marriage and allow same-. couples to marry.
London MP Pat O'Brien, who left the Liberal Party over the issue and is now
travelling the country to drum up support for another vote on the issue,
voted against the legislation.
"I don't care if it's five or 10% of people who support revisiting this
issue ... People are very understanding that the vote was unfair and
undemocratic and the decision was bad for Canada," he said.
Laurie Arron, director of advocacy for Egale, a gay rights lobby, blamed the
use of the word "free" for the poll's outcome.
[Ed. You only fear words like "free" when you know you will be trounced...]
"Canadians want a country that will move us forward [ed. with a Marxist
march through the institutions] and not roll back the clock" [ed. to the
days when politicians had the balls to say 'no'...], Arron said, pointing
out that November polling found that two-thirds of Canadians did not want to
revisit the same-. marriage decision.
Arron said that another Commons vote will not serve to put the issue to
rest, adding that even a Supreme Court decision calling same-. marriage a
charter right hasn't succeeded in stamping out opposition.
[Ed. Democratic societies don't have "issues that are put to rest", sweetie,
you are confusing Canada with North Korea - especially when you get your
way...]
"The really strong opponents of equal marriage will never let up," Arron
said.
[Ed. That's right, homo.ual marriage is not equal to normal marriage -
in fact, it is a leftist "construct"...]
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Jim
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Union Against Multiculty
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