Political Staples

I start each day off going through the Google Alerts I have set up. Today I received one from Equal Marriage For Same-Sex Couples. It appears SSM activists have finally realized that it is the Liberals fault this legislation is not law and they are beginning to back the NDP.

PM Martin allowed this legislation to die on the order paper before the last election and he clearly has the votes to get Bill C-38 through the House now. It appears the only reason he is delaying this is that he cannot control his own back-bench.

Here is how the Equal Marriage folks see it.

Prime Minister Paul Martin, along with his Justice Minister style="font-size:85%;">Irwin Cotler, are already responsible for delaying the roll-out of same-sex marriage across Canada. At the beginning of last year Martin, leading a majority government, used Cotler to stall discussions in the Supreme Court of Canada by revising a list of questions it was asking the court to address.
The move was purely political. The infamous fourth question that was added to a list had already been answered by lower courts and accepted by the government. Recognizing an abuse of process, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to answer the question, and with the court's blessing, the legislation moved on to Parliament.

This issue, like many others, is better represented by the NDP than the Liberals. For some reason it does not translate into votes, or seats, for the NDP.