+ Votes in House of Commons on Bill C-38GroupForAgainstAbsenteesTotalLiberal cabinet360137Liberal backbench5932395Conservatives393298Bloc Québécois435654NDP171119Independents0224Totals15813316307 While this vote is historic, gay weddings had already been legalized by the Supreme Courts of most Canadian provinces. The C-38 bill now extends these rulings to the rest of Canada, namely to the provinces of  , , and the territory of and the . The adoption of this bill ends a longstanding political and judicial debate in Canada, with the House of Commons referring the issue to the last year, only to have it handed back to them by the judges. If the debate has just been closed in a political sense, gay rights continue to create tensions between Canadians, since support for gay weddings comes mainly from  and and parts of  while the and provinces are mostly against them.
+ Votes in House of Commons on Bill C-38GroupForAgainstAbsenteesTotalLiberal cabinet360137Liberal backbench5932395Conservatives393298Bloc Québécois435654NDP171119Independents0224Totals15813316307 While this vote is historic, gay weddings had already been legalized by the Supreme Courts of most Canadian provinces. The C-38 bill now extends these rulings to the rest of Canada, namely to the provinces of Alberta, Prince Edward Island , and the territory of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories . The adoption of this bill ends a longstanding political and judicial debate in Canada, with the House of Commons referring the issue to the last year, only to have it handed back to them by the judges. If the debate has just been closed in a political sense, gay rights continue to create tensions between Canadians, since support for gay weddings comes mainly from Quebec and Ontario and parts of British Columbia while the and provinces are mostly against them.
A
Alberta, Prince Edward Island
D
,
R
and the
Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
A
Quebec and Ontario
D
and
A
British Columbia