Talk:Religion in Canada

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[edit] Religioustolerance.org

This article uses the religioustolerance.org website as either a reference or a link. Please see the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Verifiability/Religioustolerance.org and Wikipedia:Verifiability/Religioustolerance.org as to whether Wikipedia should cite the religioustolerance.org website, jguk 14:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Head of State, Succession

The article states: "The succession laws forbid Roman Catholics and their spouses from occupying the throne, and the reigning monarch is also ex officio Supreme Governor of the Church of England."

Yes, but the Statute of Westminister clearly released Canada and other members of the Commonwealth from rules governing succession to the throne. The question is, are there laws currently in place in Canada which would forbid a Roman Catholic from being Canada's head-of-state? No law requires us to recognize Elizabeth's eventual successor.--Ggbroad 00:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Separation of church and state

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Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (August 2007)

I'm from the U.S. and am curious to what degree Canada does or does not require or practice separation of church and state. Is the government ever prohibited from funding religious activities or messages, or can it do whatever it wants? Is there a line beyond which state involvement in religion becomes controversial? Do politicians make a big deal about religion when running for office? When did Canada stop having a state religion (when it was part of the UK, it was presumably the Church of England)? -- Beland 19:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

As far as the article on state religion says, the Church of England was disestablished in 1854 as the state religion of the province of Canada. So, since independence Canada has not had a state religion. The restrictions governing the involvement of religion and state are found in Supreme Court cases referring to freedom of religion and the striking down of religious laws due to a perception of discrimination against those of other or no faith. But no, there exists no strict separation of church and state, which has led to a muted pluralism in Canadian policy. Homagetocatalonia (talk) 00:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Orthodox #s

People are adding stats for the smallest groups of this small group. THis gives the wrong impression about relative %s. The largest groups are Greek Orthodox & n.i.e.s. If you are going to add your group please add the rest too. Here are the numbers for 2001 - but I doubt we should be including groups of 0.02%. Details are at: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55822&APATH=3&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=56&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0

  • Christian Orthodox 495,245
  • Antiochian Orthodox Christian 5,680
  • Armenian Orthodox 11,875
  • Coptic Orthodox 10,285
  • Greek Orthodox 223,820
  • Romanian Orthodox 4,675
  • Russian Orthodox 15,610
  • Serbian Orthodox 20,520
  • Ukrainian Orthodox 32,720
  • Orthodox, n.i.e. 170,060

--JimWae 00:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)