{"id":605,"date":"2007-08-17T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:37:45","slug":"canada-s-first-federal-politician-marries-since-it-was-legalized-two-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2007\/08\/canada-s-first-federal-politician-marries-since-it-was-legalized-two-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s first federal politician marries since it was legalized two years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Member of Parliament Scott Brison, and his partner Maxime St. Pierre are about to be married in Nova Scotia. Brison&#8217;s wedding comes just weeks after George Smitherman, Ontario&#8217;s first openly gay cabinet minister, wed his partner Christopher Peloso.<\/p>\n<p>There are some high-profile people on the guest list, including Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and former prime minister Paul Martin. Media reports say ex-cabinet minister Ken Dryden, former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna and former Conservative prime minister Joe Clark are also expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Brison disclosed his sexual orientation in 2002 and became Canada&#8217;s first openly gay cabinet minister in 2004 after he joined the Liberal party. But he&#8217;s always closely guarded his private life.<\/p>\n<p>Brison crossed to the Liberals in 2003 before a highly divisive debate on the same-sex marriage bill in June 2005 that saw more than two dozen Liberals join with the Conservative Opposition in voting against the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In Brison&#8217;s words, he is &#8220;not a gay politician, but a politician who happens to be gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any time someone high-profile takes advantage of the rights that have been hard-fought for, I think that&#8217;s a good day for the community as a whole,&#8221; Kevin Kindred of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project said in Halifax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Member of Parliament Scott Brison, and his partner Maxime St. Pierre are about to be married in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11,375,451],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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