Marriage on the decline: StatsCan
The National Post reports that numbers from Statistics Canada show in 2008 there were 147,788 couples in Canada who tied the knot, which is down 14 per cent from 1991 when 172,251 couples were wed.
That might not seem like a lot, but marriages have been steadily on the decline for the last 20 years, with common-law relationships picking up the slack, particularly in Quebec.
And for the first time, in 2006, families without children outnumbered those with kids in the household.
So not only are we not getting married, we're also not creating more people who one day may or may not get married.
Another big reason is CHC-I who dont take peoples marriage serious and tough spousal immigration policies preventing couples to stayaway from getting marriage aboard to avoid the mentally torture. I guess :