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: Ontario’s funding for Catholic schools was partly justified by the argument that Roman Catholic schools were protected by Canada’s Constitution. However, Quebec found ways to eliminate Protestant and Roman Catholic schools, and Newfoundland and Labrador also ended its religion-based school systems.
In 2010, Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card and McMaster University professors Abigail Payne and Martin Dooley studied the effects of a separate Catholic system on educational outcomes in Ontario. They found that the prevalence of Catholic schools in an area boosted test scores of students in both Catholic and public schools, because school boards were forced to compete and improve to retain students.
If subsidies to private schools are in the range of 35 to 50 per cent of what public schools receive per student, savings to the education budget are 50 to 65 per cent for each student not in the public system.Reneging on historical guarantees to fund Catholic schools requires a high bar of necessity. However, I believe that subsidizing private education, whether religious or not, is politically destabilizing to democracy.
Religion, for example, generally teaches adherents to be generous and therefore would influence voters to select parties that believe in more equitable distribution of wealth. On the other hand, religion may also sway voters to select more socially conservative parties. Neither choice is inherently right or wrong, but they are choices nonetheless.
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