If we were to say in Canadian courts that to define marriage as the union of man and woman is discriminatory, then certainly we couldn't tell many of the people who live in Canada who come from cultural backgrounds in which polygamy is highly valued and part of their tradition that we are now going to discriminate against their deeply held, usually religious, convictions.
Si l'on convainquait les cours canadiennes qu'il est injuste de limiter la définition du mariage à l'union d'un homme et d'une femme, nous ne pourrions plus signifier aux nombreux immigrants, originaires de milieux culturels où la polygamie joue un rôle important et fait partie des traditions, que leurs convictions profondes, généralement d'ordre religieux, ne seront pas tolérées ici.