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| Region | Canada |
| Issue | Same-sex marriage |
| Status | Unregistered cohabitation |
| Start Date | 1999 |
| End Date | Jun 10, 2003 |
| Description | On 1999 at the M. v. H. Ruling as The Supreme Court ruled that defining spousal support exclusively for opposite-sex couples violated the equality guarantees of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This required governments to extend marriage-like economic and legal rights to unregistered cohabiting same-sex partners and following the 1999 ruling the federal government and various provinces (such as Ontario, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia) passed omnibus legislation to update hundreds of laws, granting same-sex common-law couples equal access to public benefits, tax status, pensions, and inheritance rules upon meeting specific cohabitation timeframes (typically one to three years) in Canada. |
| Sources | https://web.archive.org/web/20080908114133/http://canlii.org/on/cas/onca/1996/1996onca10328.html |
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| Status | Unregistered cohabitation |
| Start Date | 1999 |
| End Date | Jun 10, 2003 |
| Description | On 1999 at the M. v. H. Ruling as The Supreme Court ruled that defining spousal support exclusively for opposite-sex couples violated the equality guarantees of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This required governments to extend marriage-like economic and legal rights to unregistered cohabiting same-sex partners and following the 1999 ruling the federal government and various provinces (such as Ontario, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia) passed omnibus legislation to update hundreds of laws, granting same-sex common-law couples equal access to public benefits, tax status, pensions, and inheritance rules upon meeting specific cohabitation timeframes (typically one to three years) in Canada. |
| Sources | https://web.archive.org/web/20080908114133/http://canlii.org/on/cas/onca/1996/1996onca10328.html |