Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
Actually, religious affiliation in Canada is measured in a really weird way - it is a self-determination based, in part, on religion at birth. My gut guess would be that of that 42.6% fully 80% are "non-practicing". We are still in the process of publishing our last census material (2006), but some interesting trends are starting to appear.
Indeed! Support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage are highest in our most (90% +) "Catholic" province... support for the latter was so high that the original bill on same sex civil unions passed the legislature unanimously.

Plus all the cool French swear words here in Quebec have Catholic Church origins