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Originally Posted by chandon12  | And now - the facts:
Canada has only a sprinkling of gay couples: census Reuters Published: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Even in Canada, one of a handful of countries that has legalized gay marriage, 99.4 percent of couples who live together are heterosexual, although the number of same-sex couples is up by one-third in five years, according to census data released on Wednesday.
The report, analyzing figures from the 2006 census, showed that just one in 800 married couples in Canada were same-sex couples, despite much-publicized 2005 legalization that allowed gay marriage.
The 2006 census identified same-sex married couples for the first time and found 7,465 of them, or 0.12 percent of the total of the 6.1 million married couples.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=df76bf58-418e-4229-b321-10a4041d3036&k=10793
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