Source: The New York Times

On July 24, 2001, The New York Times reported that, "in Canada, Mr. Bush's [faith-based] initiative would be superfluous, because the government has financed faith-based organizations for most of the last 100 years without any worry that church and state were too close." Now the Canadian government is cutting back on funds to social services, however. The president of the housing corporation at Newtonbrook United Church siad, "I don't think it's good to have everything done by the government. But I think that maybe this has shifted too far." Caroline DiGiovanni, an executive of the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto, said, "There is a significant role for faith-based groups, but I don't think they've lived up to it."