Denominational rights have been and is a major issue facing Canadians. In Ontario, there have been struggles about accepting denominational rights. During the 2007 provincial election, Ontarians were faced with the question of denomination rights within education. John Tory, the leader of the Conservative party introduced an election platform which advocated for the extension of the public funding of all faith-based schools and this has caused a major debate within the province. Canada is a diverse country with such rights and freedoms like religion, it is only fair that educational funding should not be beneficial to Catholic schools alone, but extended to other religions, supporting the notion of equality rights, religious freedoms and freedom
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This provision is to hinder the government from discriminating against any other religious group by promoting other religion higher than others. This can be seen in the funding of catholic schools rather than other schools. The government has gone against this law by funding only Catholic schools rather than all religious groups. The United Nations Human Rights committee ruled that the practice of funding catholic schools but not other religious schools is discriminatory. The Canadian Secular Alliance (CSA) - a non-profit organization believe that the church and the government should be two separate things and there should be church-state separation, which means that the government of Canada should not favor one religion over others. Section 93 of the British North America Act (1967) guarantees the separate Roman Catholic School system in the Province of …show more content…
Both freedom of religion and freedom of choice go hand in hand. This is because, when people have freedom of religion that means that they already have the freedom to choose. Article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance”. This right is not being recognized by the Canadian government because, by choosing to fund only catholic schools, they have made the citizens accept to be Catholics, not giving them the right to choose what religion they want. Parents should be allowed to choose education for their children disregarding the religion of the school. But parents cannot choose because the government pay more attention to these schools which make them have more resources than public schools and this makes parents and children become Christians by force and not by choice. If the government should extend funding to other religious schools, it would be giving parents the ability to choose what type of education or religion they want for their
This provision is to hinder the government from discriminating against any other religious group by promoting other religion higher than others. This can be seen in the funding of catholic schools rather than other schools. The government has gone against this law by funding only Catholic schools rather than all religious groups. The United Nations Human Rights committee ruled that the practice of funding catholic schools but not other religious schools is discriminatory. The Canadian Secular Alliance (CSA) - a non-profit organization believe that the church and the government should be two separate things and there should be church-state separation, which means that the government of Canada should not favor one religion over others. Section 93 of the British North America Act (1967) guarantees the separate Roman Catholic School system in the Province of …show more content…
Both freedom of religion and freedom of choice go hand in hand. This is because, when people have freedom of religion that means that they already have the freedom to choose. Article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance”. This right is not being recognized by the Canadian government because, by choosing to fund only catholic schools, they have made the citizens accept to be Catholics, not giving them the right to choose what religion they want. Parents should be allowed to choose education for their children disregarding the religion of the school. But parents cannot choose because the government pay more attention to these schools which make them have more resources than public schools and this makes parents and children become Christians by force and not by choice. If the government should extend funding to other religious schools, it would be giving parents the ability to choose what type of education or religion they want for their