# Canada same-sex marriage vote TODAY! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172 "2005-06-28T10:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/41 "2005-06-29T01:37:24Z")
Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/42 "2005-06-29T01:43:38Z")
Now I can add another reason to the list of why I’m so proud to be Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/43 "2005-06-29T02:06:52Z")
I think **matt** summed it up. :: wonders how long it will be until there is an organisation to acculturate escaped Americans :: ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/44 "2005-06-29T02:26:29Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Who wants cake? 😃 Pride Day in Yellowknife consists of giving out cake in front of the Post Office. I found this to be a very fitting statement. Yay Canada! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/45 "2005-06-29T02:54:40Z")
Now to try and get part of the anthem changed from _God keep our land glorious and free!_ to _God keep our land fabulous and free_! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/46 "2005-06-29T03:04:04Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > How are they still debating if cloture has been invoked? Or does cloture mean something different in Canada? “Clo **s** ure” is the guillotine - the Government moves closure, the House votes on that motion, and if that motion passes, there’s no further debate - a vote is called on the main issue immediately. Notwithstanding some press accounts, that’s not what happened last night. Rather, the Government introduced a motion for time allocation - that the House would debate the issue at third reading for no more than eight hours, then Mr. Speaker would call a vote on Third Reading. The eight hours ran out earlier this evening, so Mr. Speaker called the vote. Rather than a guillotine, time allocation is more of a water torture motion… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/47 "2005-06-29T03:13:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: wonders how long it will be until there is an organisation to acculturate escaped Americans :: Someone’s [way ahead of you](http://www.newroots.ca/samesex.php). > [@Northern Piper](#): > > “Closure” is the guillotine Oh, see, south of the border we call it “cloture.” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/48 "2005-06-29T18:41:48Z")
PARTY! _throws a big celebration bash_ ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/49 "2005-06-29T19:29:29Z")
hmmm - it’s been over 12 hours and so far the sky hasn’t fallen. Haven’t noticed any lightning bolts, either. although I bet Fred Phelps had a hellluva conniption fit this morning ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/50 "2005-06-29T19:30:52Z")
_checks_ Hmmm, civilization hasn’t collapsed and the very fabric of society hasn’t been torn apart in Toronto. I don’t think. How’s it looking out in the other provinces? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/51 "2005-06-29T19:36:08Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > _checks_ Hmmm, civilization hasn’t collapsed and the very fabric of society hasn’t been torn apart in Toronto. I don’t think. > > How’s it looking out in the other provinces? Check out my [King Ralph](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323351) pitting. What a…politician. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/52 "2005-06-29T20:38:51Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > How’s it looking out in the other provinces? It’s been raining all day here. That’s sort of like the sky falling. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/53 "2005-06-29T21:41:51Z")
all I can say is: “yippee!!!” and “about frickin’ time!” oh, and “Take that, Stephen Harper, you bigoted little shit” I guess maybe I have a lot to say on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/54 "2005-06-30T00:52:11Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > _checks_ Hmmm, civilization hasn’t collapsed and the very fabric of society hasn’t been torn apart in Toronto. I don’t think. > > How’s it looking out in the other provinces? Well, floods in three provnces… record heat wave in Ontario and Quebec… I don’t see any locusts yet, though, so it must be a coincidence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/55 "2005-06-30T01:22:21Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > Well, floods in three provnces… record heat wave in Ontario and Quebec… I don’t see any locusts yet, though, so it must be a coincidence. 😃 And where were the biggest floods? Alberta! Hmm. Makes me wonder which way the Smite button is aimed… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/56 "2005-06-30T02:40:24Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > And where were the biggest floods? Alberta! Hmm. Makes me wonder which way the Smite button is aimed… “I kept hearing, ‘The only thing keeping this city from being completely ruined by the floodwaters is that BIG DYKE!’ And I’m like, _Oh sure, call us in when you have an emergency!_” - Georgia Ragsdale ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/57 "2005-06-30T06:35:31Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#): > > Ha, hands up everyone who voted to force him to change his name! Me, me, me, me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/58 "2005-06-30T08:32:55Z")
Yay Canada! 🙂 Welcome to the club! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/59 "2005-07-01T03:21:06Z")
I dunno; Spain’s in the club too, now, and you know how Canadians and the Spanish mix… How’re the locusts in SK this year, **Gorsnak**? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172/60 "2005-07-01T06:23:26Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > How’re the locusts in SK this year, **Gorsnak**? The 'hoppers don’t like the cool rainy weather. Very few around. Now, back the last year of the drought we had clouds of the things. But not this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-same-sex-marriage-vote-today/310172.md?page=4)