Abstract
The Canadian legal system engenders and polices embodiment by writing into the law what a normative Canadian body looks like and does. Analysing the constitutional reference question, Reference re: Section 293 of the Criminal Code, this article attempts to link why and how monogamous bodies are produced as normative and natural in the ways scientific objectivity is valorised as the most legitimate form of knowledge production. Supplementing Suzanne Lenon's palimpsestic reading of the Polygamy Reference with a somatechnical emphasis on embodiment and epistemology via Jasbir Puar's articulation of assemblage, this article argues that the normative monogamous body has and continues to operate as a marker of Canadian identity and as part of the perpetual processes of nation building.
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