DBWI: Canada is not so fanatically anti Catholic

samcster94

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OOC: Imagine Canada being as anti-Catholic as pre Troubles Northern Ireland, and had some of this OTL when Britain still controlled its foreign policy.
Canada has long been known for its antipathy towards Catholics. The Pope visited last year, but he had to leave the country after a man threw a brick that missed him in a mass demonstration by a "King Billy" society. Although nominally a parliamentary democracy, the primarily Catholic Quebecois are systematically disenfranchised as French is frowned upon due to being "Popery" and the Canadian Constitution states that Catholics cannot serve in Parliament(citing the 1688 Bill of Rights). The United States, in comparison, is far more socially liberal(OOC: :)). In OTL, there was once an atheist chosen to serve the remainder of a President's term after a President resigned(OOC:a Gerald Ford scenario of sorts), and the current President, Mariana Torres, is a bilingual Catholic with a mother from Venezuela and nobody cares. My goal is for an alternate universe where Canada is tolerant and does not flinch at the idea at the idea of the U.S. President doing rosaries.
 
OOC means out of character. The OP was in character, or IC.

This comment, though really is out of character.

Anyway, this should probably be in the "before 1900" section, because there almost certainly isn't a plausible point of departure (POD) after 1900 to get this situation.

And as much as I love Canadian alternative timelines, before 1900 stuff tends to have massive amounts of butterflies. The likeliest POD here is probably no Quebec Act and that is a case in point. Ireland is also a really weird situation that is hard to duplicate.
 
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