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# Legal challenge seeks same rights for common-law unions as married couples

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3 March 2021

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“This systemic sexism is unique in Quebec.” Anne-France Goldwater announces her intention to challenge the constitutionality of the Civil Code’s family law provisions applying only to married couples and civil unions.

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