"For me, personally, I don’t feel that I need the sanction of the state to affirm my relationship with someone that I love....

The Ambler discovers that newly lesbian MP Libby Davies is indulging in some biographical sleight-of-hand.

This sort of undercuts her case for governement-sanctioned gay marriage. Can't she call her lesbian partner her "wife" without a government certificate, in the same way that her old partner,the late Vancouver alderman Bruce Eriksen, was her "husband" for years?