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Originally Posted by Makarov
Although I obviously find California's same sex marriage ban to be offensive, I'm always a little uncomfortable when the executive puts pressure on the judiciary like this. This sort of thing would almost never happen in Canada in this day and age.
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Actually, besides the more obvious division of power which the States has between their branches (whereas I see ours a bit more muddled) the same thing happened in spirit here in Canada.
When the issue was up here, it was going to be put to a referendum. However, before that happened, Chretien, who was nearing the end of his term and wanted to work on his legacy said that it would not be fair to put a human rights issue to a vote for the whole public and started the process in pushing it through. I forget the actual quote but it was pretty eloquent (first time for everything, I know!
). Basically what Obama is saying here, and even if there is 'pressure' he still doesn't have the power to get it rolling that our PM did.