| Same-sex marriage
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| Performed nationwide in:
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| Belgium
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| Netherlands
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| Performed in some regions in:
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| Canada: BC, MB, NL, NS, ON, QC, SK, YT
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| United States: MA
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| Articles on other countries and regions:
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| Australia
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| Canada: AB, NB, NT, NU, PE
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| France
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| Ireland
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| Romania
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| South Africa
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| Spain
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| United Kingdom
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| United States: CA
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| See also
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| Civil union
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| Domestic partnership
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Saskatchewan is one of the seven Canadian provinces and territories that recognize same-sex marriage, as of November 5, 2004.
On September 27, 2004, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Frank Quennell told CBC News that neither he nor the province will take a stand on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Two same-sex couples appeared before Justice Donna Wilson on 3 November, 2004, asking for a judgment requiring the provincial government to issue marriage licences. Neither the federal nor provincial government challenged the suit.
"Greg Walen, lawyer for one of the couples, had filed a statement of claim seeking a declaratory judgment that the common-law definition of marriage be changed to include the wording 'two people to the exclusion of others,' rather than 'two people of the opposite sex.'" [1] (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/11/03/699159-cp.html)
On 5 November, she ruled that the common-law opposite-sex definition of marriage violates the Charter rights of same-sex couples, and that "the common-law definition of marriage for civil purposes is declared to be 'the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others.' "
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