text: My father was a devout Catholic and an avowed secularist. His primary identity was Canadian. I suspect that this is the case for the vast majority of Canadians who identify with Christian religions. Their primary identity is rooted in their attachment to Canada or, as is the case for many Francophones, Quebec. More recently, however, there's been a shift as Canada has seen a growth in immigrants (and their offspring) from other religions, often from regions and/or communities where religion is synonymous with personal identity. One study, for instance, indicated that over 60 percent of Muslims in Canada identify primarily as Muslims rather than as Canadians. For many Canadians this is a troubling trend. As my now-deceased father used to note, the most positive social development he witnessed in his lifetime was the decline in sectarian religious chauvinism in the aftermath of WWII. This is a development a lot of Canadians don't want to see reversed.