I know my Canadian Parliamentary history quite well, and you citing same sex marriage as a defining reason Martin was unsuccessful is painfully ignorant and a testament to your severe lack of understanding of Canadian political and social history.
Never mind that at the time the bill became law, same-sex marriage had already been legalized by court decisions in all Canadian provinces except Alberta and PEI, as well as in the territories.
Paul Martin never recovered from the sponsorship scandal, and once the Gomery report came out, he was toast. Martin’s inability to strike a deal with the NDP over certain conditions the NDP wanted stemming from the Gomery report was the nail.
And since the Bill passed, not a single motion was ever filed to repeal the act by the Harper gov. They knew Canadians wanted this and it never ever became an election issue.
Read your history.
Your wrong on several counts. Either you're really Dumb, or you're simply lieing.
In fact same-sex marriage was an election issue, but only after the Liberals rammed it through. The Liberals never mentioned it their election campaign, that's why Canadians didn't say anything about it, even though they were against it. They just didn't know it was on the Liberals agenda. And by the way, the Liberals are exactly the same today with Turdo. Some things just never change, do they? But when the next election campaign came along, the Conservatives and Canadian citizens expressed their displeasure over it.
I know politics better than you for one. And I didn't say that was sole reason why Martin lost his re-election bid. It was one of several. But Canadians, and the Conservatives made it a point that they were against same-sex marriage.
Marriage is under federal law, unlike in the U.S. where it is under state law. Provincial governments don't have the power to change Marriage laws in Canada.
Courts don't make or re-write laws, they only defend them. The real lawmakers are the politicians in parliament. The proposed laws go through the House of Commons and then need to pass senate. Those courts you were talking about, had no right to allow same sex marriage before becoming official law. Corrupt judges were siding with the federal Liberals, before the marriage law was changed.
An average of more than 60% of Canadians were against the Liberal's new same sex marriage law, across all polls.
Harper and the Conservatives have stated during the election campaign that they were against it, and they won the election.
Harper held a vote to repeal the marriage law in the House of Commons after his party won the election, which was narrowly defeated.
After Steven Harper became PM, the Liberals were struggling to keep their heads above water. They couldn't find anyone even close to competing with Harper.
Paul Martin Jr. was seeking a coalition government because he had a minority and wanted to stay in power, but he couldn't. After Harper won his first election, it was also a Minority government. That's why he couldn't defeat the new same-sex marriage law because the Liberals were in cahoots with the NDP. But Canadians were clearly against it.
When Steven Harper had his Minority government, the Liberals and the NDP, lead by the late Jack Layton, defeated Parliament and forced another election in order to get Harper out. But it actually backfired because Harper won a landslide majority government. And good for him. He was one of the best Canadian PMs ever.
There's no denying that Canada was built on Christian faith and values. And same-sex marriage goes against all Christian religions across the board. If you don't like Christian laws, then you can move to a non-Christian country. And that goes for Turdo too.
It seems your memory fails you miserably. That's ok though, because that's normal as one ages.
And P.S., your picture of Lou Ferrigno doesn't make you any tougher than what you are. Hah ha ha ha ha. Now go to sleep, bud. That was my lesson on Canadian politics for today.