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Reference re Same-Sex Marriage, Supreme Court of Canada, December 9, 2004 [ruling that the Canadian federal government has the right to legalize same-sex marriage but declining to rule on the question of whether the traditional definition of marriage is constitutional or not under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]. Read the judgment here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.