News Analysis
Public funding means the government, not the church or the faith, pulls the ideological strings in Ontario’s Catholic school system, some stakeholders say. And this particularly affects how the schools handle matters of gender and sexuality.
It’s a cautionary tale to any institution assured it will remain independent when accepting government funding, says Jake Zwart, executive director of the Ontario Christian Home Educators’ Connection.
“Initially there won’t be any strings,” Zwart told The Epoch Times. But after some years, when you’re already reliant on the funding, he said, the conversation will turn to, “It is, after all, government money, so we can tell you what you have to do with the government money.”…