SEX RIGHTS IN CANADA

By: Sahana and Diya

 1965
Everett Klippert
became the only Canadian ever that was
labelled a ‘dangerous sex offender’ by the
Supreme Court for admitting to being gay
and having sex with men. The outrage that
followed this case is directly linked to the
decriminalization of gay marriage. Later in
1971, Everett Klippert was released from
prison.
 1969
Pierre Trudeau
proposes to decriminalize homosexuality
because the Criminal Code should not deal
with the private matters of adults (and
homosexuality should only matter when it
concerns the public or minors) in 1967. Two
years later, in 1969, these revisions are
passed.
 1978

Immigration Act
Homosexual people are no longer
inadmissible (not allowed to come to
Canada) under new Canadian immigration
laws.
 1981

The Canadian ‘Stonewall’

300+ men are arrested at gay
bath houses in Toronto and these
arrests were protested by nearly
3000 people the next day.
 1997
Delwin Vriend - King's
University College
A case from 1991 in which a lab instructor in
Alberta was fired for being gay finally goes to
the Supreme Court and it is determined that
Alberta’s exclusion of homosexuals from their
Individual Rights Protection Act is a violation of
the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
 2000

Bill C-23
is passed giving same-sex couples who
have lived together for more than a year
the same benefits as a common law
couples.
 2001

Statistics Canada collected data on same-sex partnerships. They came

to know that approximetely 0.5% of all Canadian couples reported living
in same-sex unions
 2003

Same sex marriage was legalized in Ontario and British Columbia. They
were the first two provinces to do so.
 2005

Same-sex marriage was legalized in New Brunswick.

A month later, on July 20th, the federal Civil Marriage Act came into
force. This made same-sex marriage legal all throughout Canada.
Same-sex marriage was also then legalized in Alberta, PEI, Nunavut,
and the Northwest Territories due to the Civil Marriage Act.
 2006

A census was conducted to collect data on legally married same-sex

couples. The result showed that there were over 45,000 declared
same-sex couples in the country, 16.5% of which were married.
 2016

Another census was conducted which showed that there were 72,880
declared same-sex couples; this number was 0.9% of the total number
of couples. From the 72,880 same-sex couples, 33.4% of them were
married.
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