Ebbie, I rather doubt you remember what I've written before on this subject! You don't even seem to remember what I've said in this one! Where, pray tell, did I say that "marriage" is in any way "threatened by another's union"?

What I did say was ... By choosing to use the words "civil union" however, the same respect, tolerance, and "democratic freedoms and rights" enjoyed by homosexuals could also be enjoyed by those Canadians who prefer the word "marriage" to continue to mean the legal union of a man and a woman.

I do hope you see the difference!

According to Websters:

"Democracy: a: government by the people, especially rule of the majority; b: a gov't in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections..."

On paper, yes, but in practice? HA! Canada is no "democracy", nor has it ever been!! THe recent Parliamentary goings-on discussed in this thread are only the most recent evidence of that! As to your other questions -

Do I vote?

Well, why do you want to know???

Can I change my representative political parties?

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can you "change" your Republicans or Democrats?