Re: How stupid and dangerous is John Tory's faith-based school funding?
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Posted by Mahmood Elahi on 18:53:11 2007/10/06
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Re: How stupid and dangerous is John Tory's faith-based school funding? posted by Iftikhar Ahmad
The Editor
The Toronto Sun
Faith-based public education will only balkanize Ontario
Re "How stupid is this idea," by Prof. Salim Mansur (Oct. 6).
Prof. Salim Mansur is absolutely right when he says: "The existing school system has done well to be the one place where new immigrants and their children by necessity come together to learn about being Canadian, especially when the officially endorsed policy of multiculturalism encourages the same new immigrants to retain and grow with the cultures they entered Canada. ... Unintentionally fragmenting the existing school system, as Mr. Tory's proposal would do, weakens the one institution that pulls the divergent communities of Ontario together, and strengthens those elements in our society that pull us apart on ethno-religious grounds."
PC leader John Tory has shown an amazing lack of common sense by proposing a stupid idea which will only balkanize Ontario with its diverse population representing almost every faith on earth. For this, he should be shown the door in the coming election.
MAHMOOD ELAHI
Ottawa
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