Homosexuality In Canada

CHC2D 1982 – The Present Canadian Identity
Sandra Nguyen

Civil Marriage Act of 2005
Prior to the 1960s, being a homosexual in Canada was a criminal offense. Anyone who was accused of doing any “homosexual activities found themselves subject to criminal charges and imprisonment.”[] The law slowly modified to protect and respect the gay and lesbian communities. In 1969, prime minister at the time, Pierre Trudeau stressed that changes to the views on homosexuality should be changed in Canada. In 1992, the government lifted the ban on homosexuality in the military and allowed men and women who were homosexual to serve and live with their partners on military bases. Canada became the fourth country in the world that became openly legal to same-sex…show more content…
After the band had been lifted, many homosexuals began getting legally married. This shot Canada’s economy through the sky. Weddings were being booked, jobs were being made, sales were skyrocketing and the LGBT society was jubilant. In the United States, if all 50 states legalized same-sex marriage the US economy would be booming with approximately “2.5 Billions dollars. The nation now has a $51 billion wedding industry, which employs over 800,000 people.”[] This is important to Canadian identity because we were the fourth country to recognize and legalize same sex relationships. It shows that we were and still open to new ideas, especially in the quality among all Canadians.

1998 Ice Storm
Between January 4-10th 1998, a deadly ice storm slowly crept its way into destruction, a never before witnessed in Canadian eye, which labeled the greatest natural disaster in Canadian history. It involved three different storm fronts, the Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, and the Atlantic coast with almost 100mm of precipitation impacts. Destroying anything and everything that it could get its hands on. The storm bombarded Canada with ice…show more content…
The Olympic games designates a different city every 4 years and in 2010, Canada won them to be held in Vancouver B.C. The winter Olympics taking place in Vancouver represented an opportunity for Canada to take pride and show the world Canada’s capabilities as a nation. Canada has the largest team with 202 Canadian athletes proud to be Canadian. Alexander Bilodeau was on of the most outstanding Olympic athletes in 2012 Vancouver Olympics. Bilodeau was born and raised in Quebec and he always wanted to be the first Canadian athlete to ever win a gold metal. In the end, Canada set the national record of 14 gold metals and combining a total of 26 metals. The Canadian Heritage was the lead federal government for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games because of its historic role in sports funding. The citizenship issues rattles up extremely common during the Olympics. Immigrated athletes competing during the Olympic games are given a hard time from their former country. Laws were in place for immigrated athletes that if they wished to compete in the Olympic games “the athlete generally must wait at least three years after changing/acquiring a new citizenship to represent the new country.”[] During the games, one of the most controversial dual citizen athletes was a former Canadian skier, Dale Begg-Smith. He was a Vancouver native that immigrated