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In the strategic context of the election, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer talks about religion the way teenagers talk about sex with their parents, reluctantly, downplaying his personal enthusiasm.

Whereas Liberal leader Justin Trudeau talks about religion the way parents talk about sex with their teenagers, awkwardly, downplaying his personal experience.

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As parties trade smears of their rival leaders and candidates’ religiosity, and tout their own faiths, religion is emerging as a prominent theme of this election.

Old comments by Scheer and Trudeau on abortion and gay marriage, and how elected public service can be reconciled with personal morality, are being weaponized to paint the one as a fundamentalist and the other as a hypocrite.

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Neither wants to talk much about it for themselves, only for the other guy, so it has raised tricky questions Canadians as a whole do not usually dwell on.