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Same-sex marriage has been legal in British Columbia since July 8, 2003, after a series of court rulings in Barbeau v. British Columbia which ultimately landed in favour of same-sex couples seeking marriage licences. This made British Columbia the second province in Canada and the second jurisdiction in North America, after Ontario, and the fourth in the world, after the Netherlands, Belgium and Ontario, to legalise same-sex marriage.[1]