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Martha ends her piece thus:

When we argued the case before the Ontario Court of Appeal, then-chief justice Roy McMurtry interrupted my co-counsel, and said something like, ?You are asking us to go further than any other country has gone to date, aren’t you?? Joanna [Radbord] stood back from the lectern. She paused, and took a deep breath. I began scribbling answers for her. She didn’t need them. The room was still. She simply said, ?Yes, Chief Justice. And that’s why I’m proud to be a Canadian.?

Today, five years later, as the judgment continues to change lives here and internationally, I simply say: Indeed. How proud we all should be that the Canadian vision of equality and freedom has life and meaning. And wings.

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