What constitutes a relationship that can be compared to marriage for the purposes of s.15 of the Charter?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Nero, 2014 ONSC 1896 (CanLII):
For present purposes it is not simply a question of cohabitation in any event. In Miron v. Trudel, at paragraph 88 L’Heureux-Dubé J. defined the relationship that can be compared to marriage for the purposes of s.15 of the Charter as “unmarried persons who are in a relationship analogous to marriage (i.e. of some degree of publicly acknowledged permanence and interdependence). Obviously, by its nature this relationship can take different forms, but it must to some degree be publicly acknowledged.
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