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We were going to keep the wedding guest list small, but results of a recent survey show we should invite the entire country of Canada.

Leger Marketing polled 1,507 Canadians in May and found most adults there would have no problem attending a same-sex marriage ceremony.

Sixty-three per cent of respondents said they would show up for a gay wedding, while 28 per cent would refuse the invitation. (Nine percent said they would only show up if there was ice fishing.)

Over the past two years, the courts in eight Canadian provinces have permitted legal same-sex marriages.

Last December, Canada's Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the federal government to go ahead with a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage because the constitution protects the rights of homosexual partners to formalize their bonds.