Another court backs equal marriage rights in Canada. Ontario, after British Columbia and Quebec, is the third Canadian province to guarantee equal rights to gays and lesbians. It’s also the most populous of all the Canadian provinces. More significantly, there will be no stay until the federal government figures out what to do. That means that in the next twenty-four hours, the first real, legal same-sex marriages in Western history will take place. They will be irreversible – facts on the ground. Opponents will have to base their arguments in future on actually tearing existing marriages apart. What a conservative idea!