text: Many and possibly most Catholics, like myself, believe the church's views shouldn't dictate government policy. In an essentially secular Western country, the state has an obligation to be neutral on contentious social matters and to govern on the basis of rational impartiality. Personally, I believe that moral questions like gay marriage and abortion that do not intersect with criminality should be left to individuals to decide. If people want to subscribe to a religious interpretation to govern their own behavior, that's entirely their right as long as their views and actions don't interfere with the rights of others. Immigration policy should be governed by Canada's economic needs as well as the capacity of individual immigrants to adapt and I suspect very few Catholics would disagree with me on this.