Same-sex marriage is safe.
Jan. 24th, 2006 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9Same-sex marriage is safe. Everybody breathe.
Harper has 124 seats, and 6-10 of those are queer-positive MPs.
NDP has 29, all queer-positive.
Bloc has 51, most queer-positive. Last time, they voted 43-5 in favour, with 6 abstaining.
Liberals have 103, most queer-positive. If at least 75 of them vote for equality, same-sex marriage is safe. Last time they voted 95-32 in favour.
Additionally, Stephen Harper is a smart guy. He knows that far-right social policies do not get one elected in Canada, and that when he calls his free vote on same-sex marriage he basically needs to lose. Otherwise it's scary Conservatives again. He wants fiscal changes and Conservative power, not ultra-right-wing social policies. Yes, some of his MPs have a different agenda, but he does not.
I'm not too nervous.
I hope.
Harper has 124 seats, and 6-10 of those are queer-positive MPs.
NDP has 29, all queer-positive.
Bloc has 51, most queer-positive. Last time, they voted 43-5 in favour, with 6 abstaining.
Liberals have 103, most queer-positive. If at least 75 of them vote for equality, same-sex marriage is safe. Last time they voted 95-32 in favour.
Additionally, Stephen Harper is a smart guy. He knows that far-right social policies do not get one elected in Canada, and that when he calls his free vote on same-sex marriage he basically needs to lose. Otherwise it's scary Conservatives again. He wants fiscal changes and Conservative power, not ultra-right-wing social policies. Yes, some of his MPs have a different agenda, but he does not.
I'm not too nervous.
I hope.
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Date: 2006-01-24 09:30 am (UTC)For a lot of this, I realize I have very little knowledge of Canadian Government, and most of it comes from the US press, so it's even more construed.
This helps clear things up a bit. I need to know more, I feel. Oh man, coudl I acutally want to go back to my US government class and then take foreign politics? Oh how times have changed :).