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[SIZE=-1] After a brief millennium boom, the number of couples saying 'I do' declined sharply in 2001. According to a report from Statistics Canada, fewer Canadians than ever got married that year. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"A total of 146,618 couples tied the knot, down 6.8 per cent from 157,395 in 2000," the agency said in a statement accompanying the release of its Marriage, 2001 report on Thursday. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The numbers resume a downward trend in the number of marriages throughout the 1990s, bringing the agency's "crude marriage rate" to a record low of 4.7 marriages for every 1,000 people. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]An upward blip in the marriage rate in 2000 to a five-year high of 5.1 was probably an anomaly, the agency said, "attributable to couples choosing to marry at the start of the new millennium."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]No surprise there. I get reports that, as incredible as it may seem, Canadian women are even worse than American women.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1] After a brief millennium boom, the number of couples saying 'I do' declined sharply in 2001. According to a report from Statistics Canada, fewer Canadians than ever got married that year. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"A total of 146,618 couples tied the knot, down 6.8 per cent from 157,395 in 2000," the agency said in a statement accompanying the release of its Marriage, 2001 report on Thursday. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The numbers resume a downward trend in the number of marriages throughout the 1990s, bringing the agency's "crude marriage rate" to a record low of 4.7 marriages for every 1,000 people. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]An upward blip in the marriage rate in 2000 to a five-year high of 5.1 was probably an anomaly, the agency said, "attributable to couples choosing to marry at the start of the new millennium."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]No surprise there. I get reports that, as incredible as it may seem, Canadian women are even worse than American women.[/SIZE][/SIZE]