Posted on 25/07/07
Tory's misstep on religious schools
It is telling that John Tory, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader, has pledged to appoint former premier Bill Davis to head a panel examining the expansion of religious school funding in the province. Twenty-three years ago, in Mr. Davis's final term, he made perhaps the most dubious decision of an otherwise distinguished career by extending public funding for Catholic schools - previously provided only through Grade 10 - to the end of high school. Now, Mr. Tory is proposing to correct that mistake by making an even larger one.
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