I very much believe this. First I view religion and faith as closely related but different. I kinda think of religion as the business side of faith. I mean when u listen to Joel osten preach that u should give 10% of ur income to the church. Then u read hes worth $40-60m and lives in a 14k sq ft home valued at $10m, and td Jake's is worth $20m. So it may or may not contribute to Canada's economy. Its def big business and contributes billions to some economy

Geez, given the working adult population is about 25 million, thats about $2600 per working adult. Considering not all donate or are Christian, that number is closer to $3000. Thats roughly $60 a week. I wonder what gets done with all that money....it can't all be luxury air planes and gold plated toilets? Hockey tickets?

Maybe it's True, because churches make lots of money on every Sunday service through Offering contributed by the members

Where does that $ come from? What other uses could be made of it?

Silly People!!!

Too many assumptions, and I cannot allow myself to suspend my disbelief!

BS....they lose far more in tax revenue than is actually gained....religion is a drain on society, financially and spiritually

What Country does this money come from? If the money is already in Canada then it’s just the turnover of religious companies. Unless they’re exporting products and bringing revenue the Country wouldn’t otherwise of had, I fail to see how they are ‘adding/ contributing’ this to the economy.
I agree with @twill

Any social activity generates revenue, compare the church to sports, all I'm saying is that there are alternative activities that can more than make up for any lost revenue due to the church congregations coming to their senses.
In fact call it cultural and do it for the ritual especially if everyone knows and openly acknowledges that it's a crock of mythology.
Never base a political position on anyones mythology, even Jewish mythology.
Mythology gives us the emblems of fascism.

A statistic can be a fact that has been twisted.

So they're eating food that has been deemed religious....that contributes more to the economy than regular food? Or non religious people don't eat.

If non religious people didn't eat, then they would not be spending those food savings on something else?

First of all as the article says, the research company is Cardus, an unapologetically christian organization, so just there the results are biased ergo bullshit, second, to say that because supermarkets use halal and kosher to cater to arabics and jews is another load of crap, finally they did not even consider the cost of their tax exemptions, which probably exceed the amount they "generate". Bullshit is bullshit!