Mr. Speaker, I would disagree with the hon. member for Yukon.
First, who is going to determine what are loving and caring relationships? Second, I again point to some of the remarks I made in my speech. For over 3,000 years it has been made very clear that society believes and has offered prescriptive rights to an arrangement which includes a man and a woman, their offspring if any, and should somebody die or in the case of divorce, the remnants of that particular arrangement.
What society wants is really what is important, not what the member for Yukon or some other members want. It is that long tradition not only in this country but in western civilization, I would argue the entire world, where we have afforded special attention and special rights in law and in custom to the arrangement I have just mentioned.