Deani Van Pelt: Why Ontario needs its religious schools

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has come out with some bad advice that would disproportionately hurt Ottawa.
Seizing on recent media reports that up to 11,000 non-Catholic students – most of them in Ottawa – attend Catholic schools in Ontario, the ETFO has called for the elimination of Ontario’s Catholic school system. If the union had its way, the 11,000 non-Catholic students would either be forced to return to their local secular public school or foot the