Can you really just ignore the constitution if you feel like it?

Tecumsehsbones

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At the beginning of the school year, schools send the appropriate paperwork home with the kids.
I can see the options on the form now. . .

Is your family:

1. Fish-eating bead-shaking idolaters

2. Bible-beating heretics

3. Islamic terrorists

4. JOOOOOOOZ!

5. Heathens

6. Godless communists
 

petros

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BC has some kind of funding formula. For all private schools. I don't think it covers the full cost of private school though.

They get the basic any other student gets then parents top up the rest.

For us it was $2700 on top of municipal taxes.
 

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I don't know why you need me to repeat myself.


Public money to the public system. If you want something else, you pay out of pocket.


I said it quite clearly before.


Your speech is quite clear, your mind is just confused. I don't make a habit of paying money for an inferior product! :)

It's a nice morning. Why aren't you outside playing? Did the big girls kick you in the **** and take your tumbleweed again?


Good one, Pete. :) :)
 

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The U.S. Constitution, which is taken particularly seriously by its adherents, definitively states that it “shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby.”
Unless of course you're an un-elected judge in Hawaii who was appointed by O'Bumwad. Then you and your f*cktarded personal interpretation of the Constitution are the law of the land.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Unless of course you're an un-elected judge in Hawaii who was appointed by O'Bumwad. Then you and your f*cktarded personal interpretation of the Constitution are the law of the land.
You have an interesting view of the Constitution if you think there's something wrong with unelected judges.
 

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Quebec, as the only provincial government to oppose the charter, passed legislation in 1982 that invoked the clause in every new law, but that stopped in 1985. In 1986, Saskatchewan used the clause to protect back-to-work legislation and Quebec used it again in 1988 to protect residents and businesses using French-only signs



You are absolutely correct - my bad. I didn't do my homework and now that you mention it, I recall Quebec using it. Don't recall SK, AB or the Yukon using it. Huh!


You learn something new everyday!!


Dix
 

petros

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The money follows the student. If a Catholic goes to a public school the public board gets the funds if a non-Catholic goes to a Catholic school the Catholic board gets the funds for that student.

The public aren't paying for the Catholic schools.

For most people, the taxes are skimmed off long before the money ever reaches their pockets.

But I take your point. You cannot avoid paying for what you get. TANSTAAFL.

My Muncipal taxes are out of pocket. Our properties are paid for and taxes aren't worked into a mortgage.
 

Hoid

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My property taxes are in July every year. I put it on my Mastercard now and gets cash back.
 
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White_Unifier

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One reason Ontario has refused to scrap the separate school system is because it's entrenched in the Constitution. If more governments make use of the Notwithstanding Clause, then that makes it more difficult for governments to hide behind the constitution in such cases as scrapping the separate school system for example.
 

Hoid

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Also in Ontario the Catholic school system predates the public school system.