Coming Full Circle: Supreme Court Gives Royal Assent to Same-Sex Marriage Legislation

The debate over the passage of same-sex marriage legislation came to a fitting end today, when Mr. Justice Morris Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada gave Royal Assent to Bill C-38.

While a Justice of the Supreme Court can, and does, give Royal Assent to legislation in the absence of the Governor-General (who is presently ill), it's intriguing how this debate has come full circle: it was provincial Courts of Appeal that really started the debate over changing the traditional definition of marriage; now the country's highest court has signed this essentially judicially-prompted bill into law.