Dang. I took the bait. This thread is about his comment, not his name. The fact that he feels that religion is something people who are bitter and hurt fail back (like a drug? an opiate?) rather than something that fulfills them and makes them better people. His statement was also rife with hypocrisy when he (after campaigning AGAINST free trade initiatives) he said these bitter people "cling to...anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
This is after he expressed his opposition to NAFTA (while his camp reassured Canadians he was OK with it) and voted against the Columbia Free Trade agreement which would give Americans jobs and benefit a key American Ally (that Hugo Chavez is currently working against to topple)

See this doesn't look like a new kinda politician, just the same old two-faced crap.