Political Learnings

I have a question about politics:

Why is it that the only party that ever seems to hit the nail square on the head on hot button issues for me is one that has absolutely no chance of being elected in my riding?

In the current running the issue is the funding of religious schools. It seems that only the Green Party agree with my assessment, which is that the government shouldn't be funding any religious schools, which means the Catholic board should be amalgamated with the Public one, and we should have only one school system that is publicly funded.

I'm a Christian, but I think religion is best taught in the church and the home, being a matter of personal belief, and that the lack of church involvement at school doesn't mean a lack of morals, necessarily. If you want to send your child to a private school, good for you....just don't expect the rest of us to pay for it, except through charitable donations. And don't tell me the constitution ensures your right to a separate school; that just tells me we need to revise the constitution (yet again).

The only other option I can possibly agree with is to fund all of the various religious schools, because as ridiculous as it seems, this is the only really fair option. I don't like it, but it's better than the status quo, which is clearly unfair. That's the Tory option, and they will probably be elected in our riding anyway.

At one time in the not-so-distant past, I could have relied upon the NDP to campaign for the separation of church and state, and for fairness, but ever since they got a whiff of power they are more interested in getting elected than in doing the right thing. Power corrupts....