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2001 CENSUS REVEALS SMALL NUMBER OF HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES

According to the 2001 census, there are 31,414,000 people living in Canada. Of this number, married couples make up 70% of the population (down from 74% in the 1996 census), and common law couples constitute 16% of couples (up from 13.8% in the 1996 census).

Homosexual activists have long agitated to have their relationships recognized in the national census in order, they claim, to have them "validated." In the 2001 census, the question of same-sex relationships as asked for the first time. The census revealed that only 0.5% or
34,200 couples were living in a homosexual/lesbian relationship in Canada. This data reflects similar findings in the US and New Zealand, the only other countries currently gathering such information on homosexual/lesbians in their national census surveys.

This small number of homo-sexual/lesbian couples, of course, is being explained away by the activists who claim that the Canadian figures are not exact because "some couples
have been reluctant to check the same sex box because of concerns about how the data might be used." This argument is hard to swallow in view of all the rights and privileges invented and protected for homosexuals by our zealous Canadian judges.

The fact is that homosexual/lesbian couples make up only a very tiny segment of the Canadian population. Further, it seems very few of this small number of couples actually want their relationships to be legally recognized, notwithstanding the recent court challenges in BC, Ontario and Quebec to permit homosexuals/lesbians to allow them to enter into legal "marriages."

This is indicated by legislation passed in Nova Scotia, effective June 4, 2001, which permitted registration of homosexual couples in legal civil unions. As of December 1, 2001 (approx. 6 months after the legislation came into effect), there were 83 homosexual domestic partner-ships registered in that province, even though, according to the 2001 census, there were 855 couples eligible to do so. If homosexuals/lesbians are unwilling to enter into registered civil unions, then how much more unlikely would they be willing to be tied together permanently in a legal marriage with all its legal restrictions and responsibilities. After all, hedonism and the freedom to be promiscuous is openly acknowledged as inherent in homosexual relationships.

It is astonishing, therefore, that in order to satisfy an apparently relatively small handful of homo- sexual couples, who want legal recognition of their relationships, the entire social fabric of Canada, the foundation of which is based on traditional marriage between a man and a woman, is being shredded.

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