In contrast to the U.S., Canada, where I live, has not defined itself by disputes over religion. From colonial days, English speakers were nearly universally members of Protestant creeds and French speakers members of the Catholic Church. They formed our "two solitudes", co-existing without warfare but with tension from the past apparent. Increasingly, though, with immigration coming from nations which are neither Protestant nor Catholic, we are becoming more pluralistic, though not without objections from nationalist racists.
Plus organized religion has taken hits in popularity, most chiefly with the recognition of its denial of the humanity of Indigenous peoples in the residential school system (and the physical and mental abuse related to that), although America did its fair share in that line as well.
In contrast to the U.S., Canada, where I live, has not defined itself by disputes over religion. From colonial days, English speakers were nearly universally members of Protestant creeds and French speakers members of the Catholic Church. They formed our "two solitudes", co-existing without warfare but with tension from the past apparent. Increasingly, though, with immigration coming from nations which are neither Protestant nor Catholic, we are becoming more pluralistic, though not without objections from nationalist racists.
Plus organized religion has taken hits in popularity, most chiefly with the recognition of its denial of the humanity of Indigenous peoples in the residential school system (and the physical and mental abuse related to that), although America did its fair share in that line as well.