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As indicated by their leaving the gay marriage laws as is and doing nothing about abortion? What?
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In the 2006 election, one of Harper's first campaign promises was that he would repeal the gay marriage law. The Conservatives attempted to do just that in December 2006, but the motion was defeated by the opposition parties (about a dozen MPs from each of the Liberals and Conservatives voted against party lines; the NDP and Bloc both unanimously opposed the measure).
So no, the Conservatives didn't leave the gay marriage law "as is". They tried to repeal it, but were defeated by the opposition.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Same-sex...rmed_in_Canada
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The Canadian House of Commons has voted 175 to 123 to defeat a motion by the Conservative minority government to re-open the same-sex marriage debate. If the motion had passed the government would have proposed a bill to restore the traditional definition of marriage as being exclusively a union between a man and a woman. The Conservative and Liberal parties did not whip the vote allowing their MPs a free vote.
The motion voted on read as follows: "That this House call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, 47, made holding the vote a key promise in the 2006 federal election campaign.
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Party breakdown of the vote was as follows:
FOR:
Conservatives: 111
Liberals: 13
Bloc: 0
NDP: 0
Independent: 0
AGAINST:
Liberals: 84
Bloc: 48
NDP: 29
Conservatives: 12
Independent: 1
DID NOT VOTE:
Liberals: 4
Bloc: 3
Conservatives: 1
Independent: 1
NDP: 0