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Ottawa to pitch same-sex bill | Globe and Mail
Ottawa to pitch same-sex bill

By KIM LUNMAN
From Monday's Globe and Mail

Ottawa — Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is travelling into the Canadian Alliance heartland this week to promote the Liberal government's same-sex marriage legislation.

Mr. Cauchon will take his message to Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba starting tomorrow, spokesman Mike Murphy said.

The Justice minister will be speaking at events in all three western provinces in an effort to sell the bill in traditionally hostile territory for the Liberals. While polls show Canadians are equally divided on the issue of same-sex marriage, opposition remains highest in the West.

"We want to have a respectful dialogue," Mr. Murphy said. "The minister wants to talk and he also wants to listen. He's certainly going to defend our judicial system and the independence of our judiciary."

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