Demographic Threat - Canada

Canada

There was a demographic competition during 19th and 20th centuries, between French-speaking Catholics (minority) and English-speaking Protestants (majority).

See also: Languages of Canada and Religion in Canada

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    “Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
    —Irving Layton (b. 1912)

    “I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
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