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Originally Posted by SebC
From Kent Hehr: 40 GSAs in public schools, 0 in Catholic schools, 0 in private religious schools.
Kent Hehr also says that we will likely hear about a high-school student whose request to form a GSA was rejected in tomorrow's news.
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I suspect that this was one hot potato that the CP's would not want to have to deal with, with respect to the Catholic school boards. The Catholic boards would probably fight this tooth and nail.... and there's a lot of Catholic voters out there (26% of Albertans)... which probably explains why such a significant number of CP's voted against the bill.
I doubt Hehr was at all surprised at the result of the vote. In fact he probably hoped for it as this was a bill that was designed to do just that.. fail and thus embarrass the Cons and the WR.