From here:

Canada has to update its civil marriage law to recognize gay unions for couples who live outside the country, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Friday.

The irony is the law is being changed not to make it easier for same-sex couples to marry, but to make easier for them to divorce. No doubt in another few years same-sex couples will decide marriage is irrelevant and simply shack up together. There is a bizarre symmetry in all this.

The case arose out of a court filing where a federal lawyer said Canada couldn’t grant a lesbian couple a divorce because they were never married in the first place. One woman lives in England and one in Florida. Neither jurisdiction recognizes same-sex marriage.