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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1995, May 25 | |
| In a vote of 5–4, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the country's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms also protected homosexuals, but the court refused to sanction homosexual marriage as a basis for allocating state-supported social welfare benefits. | 1 |
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| A referendum in Quebec to make the province its own state, independent of Canada, was rejected by just 1 percent. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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