So it seems rather clear that up to now there has been no Canadian PM who publicly stated he was an atheist.    Just as there has been no US president who asserted it.

It begins to look as if the claim that Canadians would elect an atheist is as valid as the claim that the US would elect a black president. About which there was considerable skepticism.

But of course the US did exactly that in 2008.

So maybe Canada will come through.

Someday.


However, perhaps now we won't hear quite so much about how vastly different Canada is from the US on this issue.