A Canadian Covenant? Covenantal Pluralism and the Fate of a Dominion

Robert J. Joustra

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2025, vol. 23, issue S1, 33-48

Abstract: Canada seems like an ideal case study of covenantal pluralism. However, on closer inspection of the three basic components of covenantal pluralism—namely, freedom of religion or belief, religious literacy, and virtues and institutions of constructive engagement—the Canadian example is not as rosy as may initially appear, and its trajectory is especially concerning. The picture we take away is one of a country that is increasingly divided on basic questions of not only freedom of religion, but even whether religion is good or bad, and a related collapse of religious literacy. We see a country which has depended on its prudent, orderly management of diversity for its economic and cultural vitality, but which has badly under-invested in the covenantal infrastructure needed to maintain it. And now, just when economically and demographically, it is most badly needed, it is at the point of—or is perhaps already—breaking.

Date: 2025
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