Belinda Stronach - "It's a rights issue"

Former Conservative Party leadership candidate Belinda Stronach and Ontario MP.

"Mr. Harper is the leader," she said. "He has the right to his own view points and to make those decisions. I'm in favour of same sex marriage."

Belinda Stronach, MP

"I'm very comfortable with my own position and it's been very clear since I entered public life a little over a year ago. I believe it's a rights issue, an equal rights issues," she said. "People have the right to be treated equally under the law."

DIRK MEISSNER (CP)