Accuracy about 2 percentage points.
CANADA                                        REFORM     LIBERALS
Highly committed Evangelical Protestants      33+ %      near 40%
Mainline Protestant faiths
. (United, Anglican, Baptist, etc.)                      66+ %
Highly committed Roman Catholics                         favoured
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So the liberal party is favored.
U.S.A.                                        DOLE       CLINTON
Highly committed Evangelicals                 favoured
Mainline Protestant faiths                    favoured
Less-committed Evangelicals                              favoured
Roman Catholics                                          favoured
No Religious affiliation                                 favoured
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Religious spilt sort of.
CANADA
.        PM's RELIGION     EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN     MUSLIM     ATHEIST
.          Most voters     Who cares                 Who Cares  Don't Care
U.S.A.
. PRESIDENT'S RELIGION     EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN     MUSLIM     ATHEIST
.          Most voters     favoured                  50+ %      43%
Highly committed Evang     favoured                  < 50 %     rejected
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This was a bit hard to fathom.  I'd like to see PROTESTANT included.  
I get the impression that Canadians are less religious.
 "Canadians are interested in what a candidate represents in terms of core 
values," says Vandezande. Americans, on the other hand, says historian Mark 
A. Noll of Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, are "more sensitized to 
religious
labels."
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I suppose, but juxtaposing these two quotes is like mixing apples and 
anges.
Traditional Christian values should have a major influence in politics:
.           Canada = 45%
.           U.S.A. = 56%
Christians should become involved to protest those values:
.           Canada = 46%
.           U.S.A. = 64%
Religion is important in my political thinking:
.           Canada = 19%
.           U.S.A. = 41%
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We are more religious.  Yuck, campaigns are even uglier because of this.
CANADA
Believe that religion is important in political thinking:
.     Nationally = < 33 %
.     Regionally = HIGHEST % in Prairies (Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba) &
.                  Maritimes (New Brunswick/Prince Edward Isle/Nova Scotia/
.                             Newfoundland)
.     Regionally =  LOWEST % in Quebec
U.S.A.
Believe that religion is important in political thinking:
.     Regionally = HIGHEST (49 % in U.S. South) and (41 % in Midwest)
.     Regionally =  LOWEST % higher than any Canadian figures
Report religious affililation
.          Christian     None or Agnostic/Atheist
CANADA     68 %          > 20 %
U.S.A.     76 %          13 %
Report strongest Christian affiliation
CANADA     Quebec, New Brunswick/Prince Edward Isle/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland
U.S.A.     U.S. Midwest and U.S. South
Report High-committment
.          Evangelical     Mainline Protestant     Catholic
CANADA     approx 50 %     approx 14 %             approx 20 %
U.S.A.     approx 50 %     approx 33 %             approx 33 %
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The evangelical are equally bothersome here as there?
Report Weekly Prayer
CANADA = < 50 %             ( lowest = British Columbia = approx 40 %)
U.S.A. = approx 75 %        (highest =       U.S. South = 77 %       )
Read Bible every week
CANADA     Maritimes Only = > 30 %
.          (New Brunswick/Prince Edward Isle/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland)
U.S.A.     U.S. South Only = > 50 %
Church attendance
CANADA     lowest in British Columbia (west) and Quebec (central)
U.S.A.     highest in U.S. South and U.S. Midwest
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Whew, that's a lot to go thru.  The last item isn't useful for comparing the 
two countries but in general we are more religious.  I can begin to see the 
difficulties of surveys.  Indeed originally this survey was presented poorly. 
 Some of the data lacks symmetry or parallel entries for both countries.  
Still it's no east to grasp of all of this, what it means, how to use it.  
Now if I were a politician or a merchant, it would be of use.  But then 
again, most American information herein contained is already sensed.  The 
only surprise was the religious bent of the Mid West.  It's no fun living in 
a religious country.  Well anyway you have shown what I've heard, that from 
abroad we are considered to have a religious fixation.  When religion gets 
passed as law, that's when it get's to me.  What international embarrassment, 
the Mexico City policy and the cutting back on international family planning.
Canada's religious affiliations, vs U.S., break-down as follows (ie, latest
figures I have for these "specific" categories):
Canada(1991)  Catholic     Protestant     Jewish     Muslim     None
.                 45.7           36.3        1.2        1.0     12.4
.  USA(1995)      21.0           85.3        2.1        1.9      8.7
What? 21.0 + 85.3 = 106.3????
... Both atheists and theists think too much about god.
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