He did talk about an office of religious freedom. If it applies to other countries, it should aply to Canada too. No double standards.
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He did talk about an office of religious freedom. If it applies to other countries, it should aply to Canada too. No double standards.
Religious freedom is not the problem you have. It is the Separate School Boards. These rights are approx 148 years old or so.
After 148 years, you'd think it's time to update it.
But not a freedom that is equally beneficial. One religious group has a right to religious education covered by taxes, the others don't.
No, the constitution is changeable as long as the federal government and so many provinces vote on to it.
The british North America Act. A parent can send his child to a Catholic school in Ontario without having to pay more than taxes. That would not be the case to a Jewish school, whereby he'd have to pay out of pocket on top of taxes.
Not true. It's tax deductible.
Besides that, any Chartered school, receives funding from Provincial coffers, per student, as mandated by the Ontario education act.
Thanks for posting that fact. Perhaps Machjo will start to believe this reality now that it has come from a few different posters.
It doesn't help that when they read news about the issue, they don't/can't recognize the difference between the meaning "school funding" and "student funding".
Any student attending a Chartered school in Ontario, is funded by the public coffers. It's the LAW, Full stop.
The school itself, is not funded. Any fees paid by parents, go to funding the school. So long as the school is a recognized and chartered school.
The experience here in AB seems to be about the same although I think that private schools may not get 100% per student funding. For some reason, I believe that I read that AB private schools receive around 80% of the per student allotment, the balance is (obviously) recaptured from tuition fees, etc.
Likely because they withhold funding that would go for infrastructure. In Ontario, there is zero funding for private schools too.