I think that they're not forcing religious bodies to perform the marriages is a fair enough cop, and is fair enough, but I've long been pretty sus about the Canadian government and their policies which are kinda wack. Like not allowing any private medical practitioners (which doesn't make sense at all, especially from my perspective with a long, arduous family history in the public medical centre - if my state's medical system isn't the most frightening in the world, I don't know what is). But yeah, I agree: I think that they've pretty much used the issue of gay marriage to distract people from other more pressing matters (like said corruption within the political parties) in the same way that the US did at the last election, only to different ends.