Jason Cherniak gives a pretty good argument why Ontario Premier Bill Davis should not introduce separate school funding for Catholic school boards. Crazy wacky variant Catholic schools will surely result. If we only had a time traveling device to carry us into the future to show us how it all turns out.
That said, I look forward to Mr. Cherniak's post on who he will be supporting at the Liberal leadership convention - that's the hot political event of the year. My money is on Eugene Whelan, but I don't really have a horse in that race.
Keep up the good work, Jason.
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What in the world are you talking about? Davis introduced a system with one Catholic Board. Tory is proposing a system that would allow many different types of Catholic schools that don't need to be part of the existing Catholic Board.
If anything, I think history shows that Davis created a discriminatory, self-perpetuating system.
My point is, the arguments you raised in your post were the same that were levelled against Mr. Davis when he introduced public financing of separate school boards - 23 years ago.
They have, of course, proved to be unfounded.
What's interesting, though, is I agree with you that funding one single school board is ideal - I'm just finding it easier to reconcile my party's position, then you are in reconciling yours.
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