Amen, sister
http://www.thestar.com/article/260061
Real issues are being ignored
September 25, 2007
School funding fight escalatesSept. 24
I am amazed and horrified that the people of Ontario have allowed the major political parties to sabotage the true election issues by focusing on faith-based school funding.Hungry children can’t learn. Families living in unsafe and substandard housing can’t provide a secure environment to foster learning. People earning the minimum wage or less can’t provide the necessities of life for their families. The poor who live on the streets without basic health care suffer from myriad health problems. Without clean air and water, Ontario’s environment will be unsustainable. Without a supply of knowledge workers, our economy is in jeopardy.
Poverty, the economy and the environment are the main election issues. Parties need to address them and share their policies with the electorate so that we can make an informed choice on Oct. 10.
Maureen Gmitrowicz, Brooklin, Ont.
on September 27, 2007 on 11:45 am
I am dismayed how people are misrepresenting this issue to score votes for their party.
The first casualty of war is truth and is becoming evident in this election.
A spokesperson for the One School System Network writes:
“Let’s be clear, public funding for faith-based school systems is a human rights violation.”
http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/opinion/letters/article/86390
That is an outright misrepresentation of what the United Nations Human Rights Committee determined. The committee ruled that in Ontario funding only the schools of one religious faith is discriminatory.
How to comply with the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee? The government funds all schools or funds no schools.
As long as Catholics are not willing to give up their constitutional right, to stir up voters and propose to amend the constitution by an unconstitutional means (majority vote by a mob) is downright reprehensible.
These deceptive, divisive and subversive tactics should be denounced by all who value their enshrined rights and freedoms.
What do the Greens think about these tactics?l
Ron Mattmer
Owen Sound