The number of same-sex couples in Canada increased by more than half in the last decade, with three times more couples choosing to get married, census data shows.
There were nearly 73,000 same-sex couples in 2016 – about a 61 per cent increase from the 43,000 reported in the 2011 census.
The increase in the number of reported same-sex couples could be due to attitudes liberalizing dramatically since gay marriage was approved in 2005 in Canada and 2013 in the U.S.,
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