These two actions will only serve to alienate the Canadian Church from the worldwide Anglican Communion which is overwhelmingly orthodox in faith and morals, and secondly it will continue its gadarene slide towards extinction, even as it boasts a doctrine of inclusion that, in fact, saves no one and nothing.

The 5-part resolution wants to affirm the jurisdiction and authority for diocesan synods with the consent of their bishops to bless committed same sex unions, but not marriage rites. That presumably would come later.

The general predictions are that the preparations for synod and the tactics of persuasion have been sufficiently successful that the resolutions of the Council of General Synod (COGS) will see these resolutions pass.

144 lay members and 117 clergy members voted. A majority in both houses was needed to declare a winner.

On the fourth ballot Hutchison got 68 clergy votes and 97 laity.
Ferris got 44 clergy votes and 41 laity.

Ferris ran second in the voting, on all four ballots. A flip of eight votes would have had Ferris as the winner by clergy order. He could not summon the laity vote.

The voting patterns followed much the same as in the American Episcopal Church.

Cameron is thought to reflect the mind of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Dr. Rowan Williams, and said, "I would be unfaithful to the task I have
been set if I did not say that the implications of your decision for
the unity of the Anglican Communion, perhaps even its very survival in
its current form, are just about as serious as it could get."