Canada in violation of international law

[gerryh]

It's nice to see how you feel about half of the Quebec population too, you Francophobic bugger.

I feel the same way about any seperatist...be they quebecois or alberta..... lower than dirt and don't deserve the privilige of living in this Country. A waste of air and space.

 

[Machjo]

:roll: this decision has been made.... Education is a provincial matter, not federal. This was decided when the provinces joined confederation. You can't change the terms of HOW they joined a century later. It's a done deal. You can't turn back the clock and go "ok.... I want a do over"..:roll:


You want to solicit the federal government to change what is and what is not provincial jurasdiction this late in the game and expect them to follow your game plan....... good luck with that skippy.

Intersting. The thread started with a link showing how the Fedral government had signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but when challnged by the UN, argued that edcuation was a provincial matter. But Human rights are a federal matter. If the federal government has no power to enforce international laws it signes itself up for, then Canada should withdraw from the UNCHR.

As the thread progressed, I'd started off focussing on Ontario, figuring that the Ontario Ministry of Education would best be suited to deal with this. But the thread gradually drifted to the Federal Constitution. Now we're back full circle to the provincial level.

So do you propose that provincial governments adopt new policies to promote equality or not?

 

[CDNBear]

Intersting. The thread started with a link showing how the Fedral government had signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but when challnged by the UN, argued that edcuation was a provincial matter. But Human rights are a federal matter. If the federal government has no power to enforce international laws it signes itself up for, then Canada should withdraw from the UNCHR.

Canada should withdraw from the UN period!

 

[Ron in Regina]

ENOUGH with the Personal Attacks. Stay on topic.

 

[CDNBear]

ENOUGH with the Personal Attacks. Stay on topic.

Hey and it's not me getting yelled at!!!

Woohoo!!!

 

[gerryh]

ENOUGH with the Personal Attacks. Stay on topic.

take a pill.

 

[CDNBear]

ENOUGH with the Personal Attacks. Stay on topic.

take a pill.

Go ahead, pick one...

 

[gerryh]

Canada should withdraw from the UN period!

agreed.

 

[taxslave]

Here's a section from the complaint:

"3.2 The author also claims that Ontario's school funding practices violate Article 18(1) taken in conjunction with Article 2. The author states that he experiences financial hardship in order to provide his children with a Jewish education, a hardship which is not experienced by a Roman Catholic parent seeking to provide his children with a Roman Catholic education. The author claims that such hardship significantly impairs, in a discriminatory fashion, the enjoyment of the right to manifest one's religion, including the freedom to provide a religious education for one's children, or to establish religious schools."[/QUOTE
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If the guy wants his kid to be educated in a jewish school so bad there is a country called Israel that has lots of them. Financed by taxpayers there. SO where is the problem?

 

[gerryh]

Those of you that object to seperate schools.....I'm curious.....what the hell do you think is the difference between the curriculum of the public school system and the Catholic School system.

 

[talloola]

Those of you that object to seperate schools.....I'm curious.....what the hell do you think is the difference between the curriculum of the public school system and the Catholic School system.

Can't speak for todays catholic curriculum, but many years when I went to catholic school for 4 years, we had one full hour of catacism every morning,
and it was serious, thorough, and just like another subject in regular school.
So, that meant that we lost one full hour each day, because of religion, and
that is one hour a day less than the public school students, adds up.

 

[gerryh]

Can't speak for todays catholic curriculum, but many years when I went to catholic school for 4 years, we had one full hour of catacism every morning,
and it was serious, thorough, and just like another subject in regular school.
So, that meant that we lost one full hour each day, because of religion, and
that is one hour a day less than the public school students, adds up.

Yup...... that's it....one more course....... yet, over all here in Alberta, Catholic School students come out on top compared to other students...... and there are ALOT of non catholics that attend Catholic Schools out here.

 

[Cannuck]

Are you now suggesting, like a typical european decedent, that the deal be wiped and rewritten?

European has nothing to do with it. It has to do with doing the right thing. Giving the Catholic religion preferential treatment is wrong, regardless of the reasons it was originally done. Giving natives special status is wrong regardless of the reasons it was originally done. Time to move on and truly recognize that everybody is equal under the law.