Ontario Elections: Faith Based School Funding

From CBC.ca | Ontario Votes 2007 | Features | Faith-based schools

"The issue of funding for faith-based schools dominated the first week of the election campaign. The Conservative are promising to extend funding to the other faith-based schools would cost roughly $400 million annually. The only requirement for the funding would be that the schools comply with provincial educational regulations, for example by hiring accredited teachers and following provincial curriculum.
"This is a plan that will bring faith-based schools, which currently exist outside of the public system, inside that system instead, subject to clear, reasonable conditions," Tory said.
Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty slammed the Tory plan, saying that extending the funding would be divisive.
"If we're going to bring about more improvement in publicly funded schools, it is regressive to contemplate segregating our children according to their faith," McGuinty said. "I want our kids to continue coming together."
The Liberal party also estimated that fully funding the existing religious schools would cost upwards of $500 million. The party says that at $9,526 per student in public education multiplied by the 53,000 existing private religious school students, the cost will be $504 million without consideration for increased enrolment, repairs, transition costs and inflation.
The Green Party claims on its website that the "only fair solution" to the debate would be to amalgamate the Catholic and public school boards into a single system.
The New Democrats (NDP) have said only that their education plan focuses on improving the existing school system."

The only party I support in this issue is the green party, which sucks because the green party generally blows. I'm sure the liberals and the NDP want to get rid of funding religious schools altogether but they just don't want to lose any catholic votes.

it's also a very weird stance for the conservatives to be taking.

You guys are looking more like the USA everyday.

We don't look like the US already? :p

only when i squint

Lets just tear down the border and call it the Uninted States of Canada. Does that mwean I get free health care?

There's no border to tear down, but you can get free health care AND medicinal marijuana!

I think religious school funding is a shit idea. Terrible. Problem is I hate Dalton McGuinty....so...won't vote PC, won't vote liberal, last time the NDP were in they fucked the province....and I'm never gonna vote green....I'm all for the Ontario Marijuana party...

Anyone?

Oh and I'm interested to hear what people think of the alternate voting system that we're also voting on...yey or ney?

I haven`t looked into the alternate voting system, do you have a good link or two for me to read about

I'm so glad you asked! haha...yea it's nerdy but I am a political science student and have been studying this system for years now...worth taking a look at. I hope people try to learn about it and inform themselves, as that's an important part of voting.
Here ya go!
Referendum Ontario

im all for first past the post electoral system... also, if i were id vote NDP. i went to the ridings all candidate debate last week, and the ndp seemed the best. the guy from the fcp was a fucking moron. it was funny though, i write articles for the local newspaper, and one of the liberals...jim watson, if you know him... came up to me and was like: tristan, iread your article in the paper, its good to see youre interested in journalism... pretty funny shit