OTTAWA, May 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal cabinet has approved new questions for the May 15, 2001 census which include homosexual couples in questions about common-law couples. The census will ask all Canadians whether they are living with a common-law partner, defined as “two people of the opposite sex or of the same sex who live together as a couple but who are not legally married to each other.”
Politicizing the recognition of same-sex couples as families in the census is of serious concern, but the move may prove useful by providing a far more accurate figure of the real number of active homosexuals in Canada, a number pro-family forces insist is much lower than that claimed by homosexuals. Apparently in an attempt to pre-empt such observations, John Fisher, head of EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere), said that the numbers on the census would not give an accurate accounting since many homosexuals, apparently still full of fear despite today’s open environment, would not report their relations.
Original source: The Toronto Star