Only one Canadian same-sex couple has gotten married in Toronto this year, while 118 American gay couples have married there along with 201 gay couples from elsewhere in the world.
Same-sex marriages account for 4.3 percent of marriages so far this year.
Ontario legalized same-sex marriage in 2003 and hundreds of Canadian gay couples have married in Toronto since then. In 2005, Canada legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Last year, 924 same-sex couples married in Toronto, 107 of them Canadian, 338 American and 479 from other nations.~
– Reported by Rex Wockner
Way more foreigners than Canadians marrying in Toronto
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