Most of us love a beautiful church wedding or a family baptism. But being a guest at a ceremony isn’t the same as being a member of a faith. Statistics Canada asks you to indicate a religion “even if not currently a practising member”. This instruction is a “priming effect” that turns guests into “supporters” on paper. These numbers are then used to justify billions in public funding for separate schools and tax breaks for religious charities. If you’re there for the toast, not the theology, let the 2026 Census reflect that.
Secular Census Project, 2026