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Originally posted by Bleeding Red@Dec 9 2004, 12:37 PM
I agree, it is unlikely the SC would change it's opinion.
but, this may seem snide (sorry, I really do not mean to be rude) maybe Trudeau didn't think he could win and didn't want to put in the effort.
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Sorry, but you just have a fundamental misunderstanding about this.
Any opinion of the Supreme Court is the same and has the same weight, whether it is offered by way of a reference from the government, a criminal case or a civil case. It is the final legal ruling on the matter.
It is now a fact of law that the Federal government has the power to legislate over marriage by virtue of the division of powers in the Constitution, and the only way to change that is to change the Constitution and then get a new opinion from the Court