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The former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin once referred to this as an early form of freedom of religion in Canada. [1] Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 awards jurisdiction over education to the provincial governments, with a few exceptions. Catholics have denominational school rights in Ontario.
Freedom of religion in Canada is a constitutionally protected right, allowing believers the freedom to assemble and worship without limitation or interference. [2]According to the 2021 census, Christianity is the largest religion in Canada, with 53.3% of the population (more than half of these are Roman Catholic); one third of Canadians stated that they were irreligious or had no religion.
(1) Every separate school shall share in the legislative grants in like manner as a public school". As a result, Roman Catholic schools (and in some jurisdictions, Protestant schools) were the only religious schools entitled to the same public funding as the public secular schools. [1] The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the law in two cases ...
Multani v Commission scolaire Marguerite‑Bourgeoys, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 256, 2006 SCC 6 is a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in which the Court struck down an order of a Quebec school authority, that prohibited a Sikh child from wearing a kirpan to school, as a violation of freedom of religion under section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
By 1871, several Canadian provinces had already implemented provincially run public schooling systems, and others were considering it. In Ontario, Egerton Ryerson had fought for secularization as a means of keeping power out of the hands of any church, and from 1844 as Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada, he had instituted significant reforms l, leading to the creation of a ...
The 1887 Public School Reader was used in Catholic education, to ensure that Catholic students who were progressing to public high school had the necessary prior education. In 1910, The Public School Readers were settled on as the official reader for Catholic schools. Canadian and British history and culture were very prominent in the readers.
They also re-established a Catholic school board, though without government funding, and Catholic teachers could be hired in the public schools, also under specific conditions. [1] However, in March 1916, the government of Tobias Norris passed the Thornton Act, which repealed the Schools Act amendments made from the Laurier-Greenway Compromise ...
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