Vote Marriage Canada was a socially conservative political lobbying group organized for the Canadian federal election in 2006 aiming at the overturning of the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Canada. Vote Marriage was founded by former

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Pat O'Brien (

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) and

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( Conservative) in 2005. It opposed

same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same Legal sex and gender, sex or gender. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 33 countries, with the most recent being ...

, and was officially non-partisan. There were 100 incumbents endorsed – 84 Conservative, 11

, 4

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and 1

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. Forty-seven of the forty-eight western and northern candidates endorsed by Vote Marriage Canada on 18 January 2006 were members of the Conservative Party. The other was independent

Bev Desjarlais Beverly Faye Desjarlais (née Nowoselsky; August 19, 1955 – March 15, 2018) was a Canadian politician. She represented Churchill in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2006, initially as a New Democrat New Democrats, also know ...

, formerly of the

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.http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2006/18/c3624.html "Vote Marriage Canada announces fifty pro-marriage candidates in the Prairie Provinces and the N.W.T." January 18, 2006

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