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As per the BNA Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Protestants are allows their own separate school and they do have at least one in Ontario:
to the best of my knowledge, that is the only one; nut the princip,le still stands that this Constitutional privilege stops at Catholics and Protestants.
Hey that's quite unique. Never heard of that.
I guess all of the hundreds of other formerly Protestant public schools in Ontario transitioned to regular public non-confessional schools over time, but this one did not. Nor did its school board - which exists just for this one school.
It's worth noting that the constitutional requirement for separate religious (as exists in Ontario) is not unchangeable.
Quebec used to have this constitutional requirement as well but requested a constitutional amendment and made the change in the 1990s. Newfoundland did the same thing during that decade as well.
I think it was two Ontario elections ago. The Greens said they wanted to get rid of funding for all religious schools and the PCs suggested funding for all schools. The Liberals defended the status quo and the NDP stayed mum on the subject. the parties won more or less in relation to their support for the system, with the Liberals on top and the Greens at the bottom. Even the PCs suffered from this.
It always blows my mind how Catholic schools are such a sacred cow for so many people in Ontario. To the point where you can lose an election over it - even though the province is not majority Catholic.
Or maybe it shouldn't surprise me.
The dirty little secret is that Catholic schools are seen as a convenient way by many parents to isolate their kids from "ESL" immigrant kids. Since the vast majority of FOB immigrants in Ontario are not Catholic, most Catholic schools have far lower percentages of immigrant kids than public schools. The contrast between the two systems is particularly striking. "Ethnic" kids in Catholic schools tend to be Italian or Portuguese kids whose families have been in Canada for several generations, so they're Canadianized.
It always blows my mind how Catholic schools are such a sacred cow for so many people in Ontario. To the point where you can lose an election over it - even though the province is not majority Catholic.
Or maybe it shouldn't surprise me.
The dirty little secret is that Catholic schools are seen as a convenient way by many parents to isolate their kids from "ESL" immigrant kids. Since the vast majority of FOB immigrants in Ontario are not Catholic, most Catholic schools have far lower percentages of immigrant kids than public schools. The contrast between the two systems is particularly striking. "Ethnic" kids in Catholic schools tend to be Italian or Portuguese kids whose families have been in Canada for several generations, so they're Canadianized.
The Catholic school my nieces and nephews attended here had Sikhs and Muslims and recent ethnic types.
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