Marriage itself falls under federal jurisdiction in canada But the provinces regulate the solemnization of marriage (the formal ceremony that is either civil or religious) They also grant marriage licenses. In recent decades, canada went through some major legal shifts in support of lgbt rights (e.g Subsequently, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was outlawed in different parts of the country, and during the late 1990s, this was extended to the whole of canada in a series of legal judgments Gender identity and gender expression were brought under the canadian human.
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