 The Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) similarly operates a Gender and Sexual Diversity Monitoring Group, and like the UUA (of which it became autonomous in 2002), has Welcoming Congregations.The Canadian Unitarian Universalist congregations perform same-sex marriages and the CUC supports this work through its Lay Chaplaincy program.The first same-sex marriage performed by a church in Canada (after 1972 a civil same-sex marriage for Michel Girouard and Rejean Tremblay of Montreal) was that of Chris Vogel and Richard North, married by the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg on February 11, 1974 officiated by Unitarian Minister Rev.