New Brunswick’s Policy 713 is not an attack on parents’ rights
Christopher Brittain is dean of divinity and Margaret E. Fleck Chair in Anglican Studies at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College.
Although Canadian law is rather clear on what the obligations of parents are , the point at which the rights of parents end in relation to the rights of their children is sometimes rather vague. What is clear, however, is that parents do not have absolute control over their offspring. Indeed, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is generally understood as implying that parental rights do not eliminate a child’s right to self-determination.
My thoughts on that matter are influenced by my childhood in New Brunswick. In the mid-1970s and 1980s, I regularly encountered classmates in school who were regarded as “different.” In elementary school, I don’t recall having labels to name this “difference,” although a few insults and slurs come to mind that were employed by bullies who gave such children a hard time.
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