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"The legislation includes a so-called near-age exemption of five years so that, for example, a 14-year-old could still have a sexual partner aged up to 19, and a 15-year-old could have a partner aged up to 20.

The aim is to avoid criminalizing sexual experimentation by teens with their peers, but provide a way to prosecute older adults who target youngsters."

This is very good, I am impressed. It certainly heads in the right direction, However, if they can deal with changing the minority age of consent you would think they could at least provide notice that they intend to reverse the Canadian posture in respect of encouraging gay marriage.

One has to believe if they are merely saying we will have a vote on the matter some point in the future they clearly have no intention of reversing the situation. Indeed, it sounds like they are just trying to keep the base quiet.

You're really grasping at straws now.

A small number of militant gay activists self-servingly manipulating the Liberal-left-behind status quo & like pronouncements by obscure, quasi-official (at best!) entities hardly amount to any sort of all-encompassing "... Canadian posture in respect of encouraging gay marriage".

There's little of nothing left of your original position based upon your own numerous logically compelled concessions on this thread alone.
All that remains is mere armchair quarterbacking & disloyal doubting (from a conservative standpoint) with respect to Stephen Harper's overall long range strategies coupled with a dismal lack of understanding when it comes to both Parliamentary systems of government in general & Canadian federalism in particular.

In short, you now sound exactly like a Democrat busily fault-finding & spewing defeatism with regard to America's policies in Iraq.

Canadians on FreeRepublic trust President Bush as the leader of the free world in the international war on terrorism together with Secretary Rumsfeld and all of his other duly appointed Officials to competently & conscientiously execute his overall battle plans.

You (and any other U.S. based FReepers so inclined) should rightly knock off what is plainly just counter-productive carping & nitpicking & similarly trust & support Stephen Harper & his government to advance the conservative cause in Canada.