Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: (The CBC) Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps. - not really Message-ID: <1644@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 16:08:21 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1644 Posted: Fri Jul 26 16:08:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 16:16:10 EDT References: <300@looking.UUCP> <3283@garfield.UUCP> <1162@ubc-cs.UUCP> <711@lsuc.UUCP> <1170@ubc-cs.UUCP> <724@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Distribution: can Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 24 Summary: >> >> Jim Robinson suggested that in light of the >>Constitutional bar against religious discrimination, >>funding for separate schools, if upheld should also >>be available for other religions. >> >> I see no problem with this argument. > >Wouldn't it have to be available for non-religious private schools >as well, since denying them funding would also constitute discrimination on >the basis of religion ? > >J.B. Robinson I'd be happier funding private schools whose reasons for being private were non-religious (academic excellence, alternate teaching methods, etc.) than with funding schools where fundamentalists could deny their children an education. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt