AMALGAMATING SEPARATE & PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS COULD SAVE $1B ACROSS ONTARIO

While that's a tempting figure apparently far too many entrenched interests really aren't interested in those particular savings. Pity. Decades ago having taken political science at University (& economics) I thought that the British North America Act was written in stone including guaranteeing a separate school system for Catholics. At the time Canada (Upper & Lower) was basically made up of French catholics and English protestants. Well obviously things have changed rather dramatically in the interval including the fairness of publicly funding one particular religion but not others. Ted Martin the Chair of the public board has indicated that "...the United Nations human rights commission has said it's discriminatory." Fair enough; it wasn't but now it is. A new arrangement is overdue. Also the idea of saving money would be a blessed relief to also long overburdened taxpayers. Sales taxes whereby governments suck up consumers allegedly aftertax income are nothing but a disincentive to purchasing both necessities and luxuries. They also are an unfortunate positive incentive to governments to keep on wasting our money as long as the spigot keeps on flowing. Unless we as a society are happy with how much of our taxes are going to simply service our massive debt year after year, then we have to find savings and our education system is long overdue for a major overhaul. On June 9/14 the Waterloo Region Record carried this article "Board chair wants one system".