We never were a white Christian country. I remember the phony, fake, stifling forced artificial piety of the 1950s. Religion in Canada has always declined from East to West and from South to North. The Frontier gave people a chance to get away from the control of Priests and Bishops. The only places in Canada that still have Lord's Day shopping restrictions are on the East Coast, where folks still go on and on about their "Loyalist" ancestors sticking with Insane King George.