Ontario Turns Hard Left??

[Canadian Visitor]

^ similar to our version of seperation of church and state?

I don't know that it would be analogous.

Canada does not and has not had a State Church.

While we do have 'freedom of religion' in our Charter; we do not have a 'separation of' clause per se.

The move was more than anything an 'efficiency' as Quebec and other provinces that had/have this division have ended up with 4 [[or more) school boards [[x all the districts).

Public-English
Catholic-English
Public-French
Catholic-French

Newfoundland was worse it had multiple protestant boards before it went 100% secular public [[ie. baptist, methodist, presbyterian etc.)

Having said that, the move to efficiency is also part of a secularized Canada.

Far fewer weekly church goers here than in the U.S.

That move towards secular/agnostic views in the broader public has informed government moves to reduce waste/duplication in this area.

Increasingly, there is a move to abolish all school boards. The argument being that the Ministry[[s) of Education are the ones who dictate all the important stuff already, and the age of local trustees has passed.

2 or 3 provinces have now moved to abolish all school boards giving direct control to the provincial governments of the day.