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since the 1950’s has implied to the fact that religious power in party conflicts typically appear to
be historical artefacts2. Parties tend to vary on the role of government, economic management,
ecological policy, unlimited trade along with health care transformations and education
expenses. Meanwhile, Bickerton and Gagnon (2014) are of the opinion that party leaders who
show religious sentiments typically evade the subject of changing family values at most effective
minor policy concessions to religious and cultural conservations requiring reviewing discussions
over abortion as well as sexual minority authorities. Such lack of effective approach draws
variance from party politics in the United States where discussing such issues is considered to be
highly important and expressions of conservative religious faith show utmost visibility3.
Furthermore, according to Clarkson (2014) the approach fluctuates with a range of European
party systems whose fundamental centre-right parties are embedded in a Catholic tradition
despite of destabilized explanations. Likewise, Medeiros and Noël (2014) are of the opinion that
such these religious beliefs draw variance to a perception that religion has never served as a
decisive role in sphere of Canadian party politics4. These divergences further interpret into the
view with the exclusion of extensive denominational affiliations which long ago lost their
associations to severe policy divergences and which currently border on the insignificant and
negligible.
While arguing that Canada has developed utmost secularization, authors have shed light
to the decline of faith, belief and religious practice. Furthermore, Clarkson (2014) has thrown
light to the institutional demarcation of trust, belief and politics which have further been
regarded as institutional differentiation. Authors thus are of the view that such decline is
2 Medeiros, Mike, and Alain Noël. "The forgotten side of partisanship: negative party identification in four Anglo-
American democracies." Comparative Political Studies 47, no. 7 (2014): 1022-1046.
3 Bickerton, James, and Alain-G. Gagnon, eds. Canadian politics. University of Toronto Press, 2014.
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