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- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/132/
- Published: 2005-03-10T21:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-18T10:12:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Oh, Canada!  
  
The troublous trolley trundles forward in Canada. In furtherance of its same-sex marriage law, Ontario has a new bill that will rid all its statutes of non-gender-neutral references. Attorney General Michael Bryant stated, on introducing the bill, "Currently, the statutes offend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

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“A perusal of the bill shows substitutions for previously used spousal terms in numerous places throughout 73 Ontario Statutes as follows:

“Widows”, widowers” replaced by “surviving spouses”  
“A person of the opposite sex” replaced by “a person”  
“Wives, husbands” replaced by “spouses”  
“Two persons of the opposite sex” replaced by “two persons”  
“The wife or husband” replaced by “spouse”  
“A husband or wife” replaced by “spouse”  
“The husband and wife” replaced by “the spouses”  
“A man and a woman” replaced by “two persons”  
“Husband and wife” replaced by “spouses”  
“Cohabited as man and wife” replaced by “cohabited as a married couple”  
“Same-sex partner” replaced by “spouse”

[LINK](http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022511.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)