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More than likely the reason the "Canadian government" (since Harper has come to power, now known as the "Harper Government" according to official government letterhead) is doing this is because same-sex marriage was made legal in Canada under a Liberal federal government. Since coming to power, Harper has vowed not to challenge human rights laws the Liberals put into place (same-sex marriage and abortion rights among them). However, he and his rightwing, evangelist MPs have gone out of their way to make it extremely difficult for women to find abortion clinics across Canada. Additionally, he and his MPs have rallied in order to make it difficult for women in impoverished countries with very few, if any, women's rights, where the organisation of Planned Parenthood also operates, to get abortions or birth control. These MPs (backed by Harper) claimed they did not want to "push Canadian values on the traditional values of other nations."

And this appears to be the same approach this conservative Harper Government (TM) is taking with same-sex marriage. They won't try to seriously reopen the question in Canada, however, they are going to try to hinder the process as much as they can. They are doing so again with this attempt at reneging marriage certificates of non-Canadians in Canada, when any other marriage would be perfectly legal. This is their way of sticking it to same-sex couples, simply because they can't do it to same-sex Canadian couples.