A report says the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed.

The Globe and Mail newspaper says the reversal in policy was revealed in a document the government filed in a divorce case involving two lesbians. The two women -- one from Florida and the other from England -- went to Canada in 2005 and got "married." The couple has been told they cannot divorce because they were never legally married.

According to the document filed by the Harper Justice department, the marriage of the two lesbians is not legal in Canada since they could not have been lawfully wed in Florida and England at the time. ...

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