Mr. Chairman, in British Columbia the definition basically reads that you have a common-law relationship where the two people have been living together for a period of not less than two years. In Manitoba, it's where parties cohabited for at least one year and there is child or the parties have cohabited for five years. In New Brunswick, where parties have cohabited continuously for a period of not less than three years in a relationship, where one person substantially depends on the other or parties are in a relationship of some permanence and have child. In Newfoundland, the parties cohabited for a period of one year or more and the man is the father of a child born to the woman. In Nova Scotia, parties living together as husband and wife for one year. In Ontario, parties have cohabited continuously for a period of not less than three years or parties are in a relationship of some permanence and have a child. In

the Yukon, parties cohabited in a relationship of some permanence. In Saskatchewan, parties cohabited as husband and wife for a period of not less than three years or parties cohabited as husband and wife in a relationship of some permanence if they are the birth or adopted parents of a child.