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Originally Posted by guzzy
The thing with that is the country was founded on Christian beliefs so I believe the way it is set up works well for everyone. Those who disagree can leave the country.....is that harsh?
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You are aware that allowing Catholic schools was a constitutional right given to French-speaking (and predominantly Catholic) Quebec, right? It had absolutely nothing to do with Canada being founded on "Christian beliefs", since the majority of English-speaking Canada at the time was Protestant. When the British North America Act was signed in 1867, Quebec politicians ensured that they had the right to "protect" their province's children from cultural assimilation by Protestant Ontario by providing them with a Catholic education (in those days, it was mainly churches who ran schools, not the government).
Over the past few decades, many provinces have done away with publicly-funded Catholic schools entirely.