| School funding a key issue: McGuinty |
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| Written by Rob Ferguson , Toronto Star | |
| Thursday, 23 August 2007 | |
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The Progressive Conservative promise to extend public funding to Jewish, Muslim and other religious schools will be a "defining issue" when Ontario voters go to the polls Oct. 10, Premier Dalton McGuinty predicted yesterday. Stepping up his attack on the Tories' $400 million pledge for faith-based schools, McGuinty said it risks unravelling the "social cohesion" developing in Ontario with children of many religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds growing up together in public schools. "It's one of those issues where I'm hoping to grab Ontarians by the earlobes and say, `It's not just another election, it's not just business as usual, it's about the kind of Ontario that you want,'" he said on the way into a cabinet meeting. |
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