In other words, SirJoseph you don't know the rules in Ontario, and you don't know them in Alberta, so you're just indulging in your ignorant disdain of a province you know next to nothing about.
Wulfie, no I did not Google for what the position is in Ontario. However, to me it makes only common sense that government require all the schools, public and private, to teach the core curriculum in math, physics, chemistry, languages etc. Then on top of that the private or the charter school may teach material that would be specific to that school.
And yes, I do know them in Alberta, from the news item on CBC I quoted in this thread.
The fact of the matter is that SirJoseph and his ilk don't like to admit that Albertans are less extreme and closer to the center in their political views than most Liberals of his ilk and use propaganda pieces like this to bolster their view and justify looking down their noses.
Do you really deny with a straight face that Alberta is more conservative than Ontario or Quebec? Alberta is the home of Reform party and Alliance, which were very much parties of the right. Even during Mulroney era, the MPs and cabinet members form Alberta used to be blue Tories, those from Quebec red Tories, and those from Ontario a mix of the two.
When courts legalized gay marriage, where was the maximum resistance? In Alberta, of course. Both Klein and Harper had to resort to incendiary rhetoric (talking about building a firewall around Alberta) to placate the religious right. No other province found it necessary to placate the religious right that way.
Stockwell Day, a self proclaimed Fundamentalist (and by his own admission, a Creationist) originally hails from Alberta. A leader with his views and his prominence usually does not arise in vacuum, usually there are a substantial number of people who agree with his views.
I don’t know how many examples you need to support my contention that Alberta indeed is much more conservative than Ontario or Quebec.