Seven years after Canada legalized same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian couples are running to the altar.
Between 2006 and 2011, the number of same-sex married couples nearly tripled, according to new census data released Wednesday.
While the number of opposite-sex couples who took the leap into matrimony grew by only three per cent since the last census, the number of same-sex couples tying the knot jumped by 181 per cent over the same period, from about 7,500 in 2006 to 21,000 in 2011.
