53 percent with 44 percent opposed. An April 2001 Environics Research Group survey showed that 45 percent of Canadians supported same-sex marriage (29 percent "strongly" and 16 percent "somewhat"), while 41 percent opposed (30 percent "strongly" and 11 percent "somewhat"). A June 2002 survey conducted by Focus on the Family Canada, a group opposed to same-sex marriage, found that 46 percent of Canadians agreed same-sex marriage should be legalized whereas 44 percent disagreed. A poll conducted by the Centre for Research and Information on Canada in October 2002 showed that 53 percent of Canadians supported same-sex marriage, while 41 percent were opposed. A November 2002 Ekos/CBC poll asked respondents if they would vote "yes" or "no" in a referendum on the issue of same-sex marriage. 47 percent answered "no" and 45 percent answered "yes", while 8 percent did not know. A 2005 opinion poll taken shortly before Parliament voted on the Civil Marriage Act'' found that 42 percent of Canadians favoured the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, while 40 percent were opposed and 18 percent did not respond or were undecided. A June 2006 poll conducted by Ekos asked respondents if the debate on same-sex marriage should be reopened. 62 percent considered same-sex marriage settled, 27 percent wanted to reopen the issue, and 11 percent either had no opinion or did not respond. In 2012, a poll by Forum Research showed that 66.4 percent of Canadians approved of legalized same-sex marriage, while 33.6 percent were opposed. Support for same-sex marriage was highest in Quebec (72 percent) and British Columbia (70.2 percent), while lowest in Alberta (45.6 percent). A May 2013 Ipsos poll of residents of 16 countries found that 63 percent of respondents in Canada were in favour of same-sex marriage and another 13 percent supported other forms of recognition for same-sex couples. After same-sex marriage in the United States was legalized by their Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (June 2015), a poll by Forum Research showed that 70 percent of Canadians approved of same-sex marriage, while 22 percent disapproved. In May 2016, members of the Conservative Party of Canada voted 1,036–462 to change the party's political platform from defining marriage as "a union between one man and one woman" to a neutral stance. As a compromise, the party did not elect to support the right to same-sex marriage, allowing members "the freedom to hold personal opinions against same-sex