From here:

The blessing of civil marriages between same-gender couples can now take place in diocese of Rupert’s Land parishes that wish to offer them.

Approximately a third of the Anglican Church of Canada’s 30 dioceses now have moved forward with same-sex blessings, an issue that has deeply divided Anglicans in Canada and worldwide.

The 2010 meeting of General Synod, the church’s governing body, did not approve the so-called local option allowing dioceses to grant same-sex blessings. But it recognized that the local option has been exercised by some dioceses and may be used in the future without the approval of the national church.

The reason the “local option” – allowing dioceses to make their own decision on whether to permit same-sex blessings – was not approved at the 2010 general synod is because it would have earned the Anglican Church of Canada a slap on the wrist from Canterbury – albeit a mild one.

To avoid this, the local option was not sanctioned – in the full knowledge that dioceses would make up their own minds anyway. It was an act of cowardice, a passing of the buck, an exploration of a deeper hypocrisy.

As the malaise spreads, it seems pretty clear – to me at least – that the fragile, forlorn hope nursed by naïve conservatives that the Anglican Church of Canada might eventually repent has degenerated into wilful self-deception. Short of a sovereign act of God, the ACoC is charging headlong into the abyss: get out now before you are sucked into the gaping maw created by its gadarene plunge to perdition.