text: No, it is not that complicated and not that recent.
  
  Back in the 1980s Sociologist Reginald Bibby found that for the majority of so call Canadian Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Jews, ... the designation had no significance beyond what genre of ritual was performed when they were born, married and buried. It is about as strong as saying that you are ethnic British, Scots, Irish, French, Belgian, German, ... and no more.
  
  Three decades later we see most young couples raising children in "Catholic" Québec not bothering to get married, let alone by a cleric in a temple.
  
  I agree that Secular would be a better label than No Religion, but the Census category label is No Religion. For most Secular Canadians it isn't a big deal issue of being Atheist or Agnostic. Religion is simply something that does not matter in their daily lives, similar to how many pecks make a bushel.