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Originally Posted by corporatejay

Why does everyone keep saying "seperation of church and state". That's an american doctrine. Last time I checked the government still collected tax dollars (and subsidized) catholic schools.

Its not really American Doctrine per say, its got a few other names than Separation of Church and State as well.

Canada has an interesting history with Education and church/state issues, in 1867 Catholics were given funding for schools in the constitution act.

Here's a brief history of Education & Church/state in Canada:

Canada's approach to religious education often faces concerns addressing to how to best balance competing concerns, e.g. anti-discrimination laws and religious freedoms, and respect rights to religious education outlined in important Canadian legal documents. Catholic education public funding is mandated by various sections of the Constitution Act, 1867 and reaffirmed by Section Twenty-nine of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The United Nations Human Rights Commission declared in 1999 that Ontario was in violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights by only funding Catholic schools and not other faith-based schools.[21] Newfoundland withdrew Catholic funding in 1996, via legislation that required approval from the Canadian House of Commons. Quebec abolished religious education funded by the state through the Education Act, 1998 which took effect on July 1st of that same year.
In 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Trinity Western University vs. British Columbia College of Teachers that the British Columbia College of Teachers was wrong to withhold accreditation of Trinity Western University's teacher education program on the basis that their moral code contained provisions banning certain LGBT activities.[22]
In a highly publicized 2002 case, Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic High School in Oshawa, Ontario, which is publicly funded, lost a court battle to enforce its code of conduct, when they sought to prevent student Marc Hall from bringing a gay date to the school prom.[23]
In 2006, the Province of British Columbia moved to make changes that would require religious schools to teach LGBT-friendly educational material (see related article Peter and Murray Corren); however, the British Columbia government indicated that changes to the public education system were not intended to prevent religious schools from teaching their ethical codes of behaviour.[24] Also in 2006, in Quebec, Christian evangelical schools are now being required to teach both evolution and sex education, a requirement that does not exist in some other provinces.[25]