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God", 10% answered they believe in God "sometimes", 20% said they don't believe in a "personal God" but "do believe in a higher power", 12% adopted the classic agnostic position and said they "don't know whether there is a God and don't believe there is a way to find out", and 7% said no God exists. Slightly more than half believed in heaven, while less than a third believed in hell, with 53.5% saying they believed in life after death. About 27% said they believe in reincarnation, and 50% expressed belief in religious miracles.
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A 2010 80-questions mail-in survey of 420 Canadians by Carleton University Survey Centre and the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies found 30% agreed with the statement "I know God really exists and I have no doubts", 20% acknowledged they "have doubts" but "feel that I do believe in
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showed that 47% of the Canadian population believed religion does more harm in the world than good, while 64% believed that religion provides more questions than answers. A 2008 Canadian Press Harris-Decima telephone survey of just over 1,000 Canadians found 23% were willing to state they do not
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The Canadian Ipsos-Reid poll released September 12, 2011 entitled "Canadians Split On Whether Religion Does More Harm in the World than Good", sampled 1,129 Canadian adults and came up with 30% who do not believe in a God. The same poll found that 33% of respondents who identified themselves as
160:, who tabled this petition in Parliament, was subsequently relegated to the backbenches by his party leader. Shortly afterwards, the same group petitioned to remove the mention of "God" from the Canadian national anthem, " 2077:"2001 Census Topic-based tabulations Religion (95) and Visible Minority Groups (15) for Population, for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2001 Census - 20% Sample Data" 2381: 2351: 2256: 2376: 2306: 2356: 2196: 2246: 2261: 2156: 2346: 2311: 2366: 2361: 1856: 107:, among those estimated 4.9 million Canadians of no religion, an estimated 1.9 million would specify atheist, 1.8 million would specify agnostic, and 1.2 million humanist. 2371: 2341: 2251: 2201: 2161: 2336: 2331: 2326: 2181: 2316: 2321: 2236: 2286: 2221: 2191: 2166: 2301: 2296: 2226: 2206: 2104: 2241: 2171: 2291: 2216: 2650: 2186: 2016:"Religion by visible minority and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts" 152:
which was founded in 1992. In 1999, hundreds of non-religious Canadians signed a petition to remove the mention of "God" from the preamble to the
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A map of Canada by province and territory showing the distribution of the population by religious affiliation in 2021
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The Canadian provinces and territories ranked by percentage of population claiming no religion according to the
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The results of this survey are considered accurate to within 4.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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The Canadian provinces ranked by percentage of population claiming to believe in God according to
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A sample of the same size has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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Percent of Canadians not identifying with a religion by province or territory in 2011
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These results were obtained with the question "What is this person's religion?"
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Many non-religious Canadians have formed associations, such as the
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Catholics and 28% Protestants said they didn't believe in a God.
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Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (9 February 2022).
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Atheism and Secularity: Issues, concepts, and definitions
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Christians in a Secular World: The Canadian Experience
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is common throughout all provinces and territories of
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Irreligion
Canada
atheists
agnostics
secular humanists
deists
spiritual
pantheists
2021 Canadian census
no religious
2011 Canadian census
2001 Canadian census
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Ipsos-Reid
Humanist Association of Canada
Centre for Inquiry Canada
Toronto Secular Alliance
Society of Freethinkers
Canadian Constitution
Svend Robinson
O Canada

2001 Canadian Census
2011 Canadian Census
2021 Canadian Census
Canada
Yukon
British Columbia
Alberta

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