Coming out

摘要

For most of its early history Canada was riven by religious conflict, with the English-speaking Protestant majority battling the mainly French-speaking Catholics. Religion was gradually excluded from public discourse by a combination of political compromise, Western secularism and the need to make immigrants feel welcome. Until recently, you could meet a political or business leader and never know his faith or whether he had one at all. Unlike Americans, Canadians considered faith a strictly private matter.