Daily Archives: 9/24/2007
Tory Getting Rough Ride on School Funding
| 9/24/2007 | Posted by Patti under Ontario Election |
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is the latest group to come out against Provincial Conservative John Tory’s pledge to fully fund all religious schools if he is elected Premier on October 10th. The Association calls for an end to the funding of Catholic separate schools. The move, if any politician was brave enough to back it, would be gutsy but likely political suicide.
The United Nations has called the practise of providing funding for Catholic schools but no other religions discriminatory. Tory calls his pledge to fully fund all religious schools ‘fair’. I wonder if Tory has even thought about a definition of what constitutes ‘religion’. That is a term that has to be harder to define than the word ‘terrorist’. For some, the two words mean the same. (more…)
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