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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Canada has a State church .
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Oh really? I must have missed that in the hundreds of times that I've read the Constitution Act, the British North America Act, and hundreds of Charter and Division of Powers cases I've read. Of course, its not necessary to go to law school and practice law for a few years to learn that Canada has no state church. Two seconds on Wikipedia confirms it:
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Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of religion. Progressively, case law has led to the overturning of specific laws that reflected religious observances (essentially Christian). Notwithstanding this, separate schools for Roman Catholics (the religious majority) are constitutionally protected and funded by taxes in some provinces. Canada's head of state, the King or Queen of Canada, is also the head of the Church of England which is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church of Canada, the Canadian "branch" of the Anglican Communion, is, however, not "established" as a state church in Canada as is the Church of England.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion#Canada