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One Public Education Now (OPEN) is a coalition of groups and individuals who are outraged by the current publicly-supported school system in which one religion has special education privileges and there is blatant legal discrimination against non-Catholic teachers and other educational workers funded by the taxes of all of us, Catholic and non-Catholic.
How The Current System Works
Who Pays for Separate Schools
Wasted Money
OPEN supported the legal application of two of our members to have the current funding of Grades 11 and 12 at separate schools, and the current funding of non-Catholic students at separate schools to be declared contrary to the Charter of Rights s.15(1) guarantee of no discrimination on account of religion, and therefore invalid. The Attorney-General of Ontario filed a Notice to Dismiss the application at a preliminary stage and were successful at the Superior court level. Though our lawyers thought we had good grounds for appeal, we were not confident we could raise enough funds to continue the case.
(1) Federation of Urban Neighbourhoods of Ontario, Ontario Public and Catholic School Merger Study, March 2012
(2) Freedom of Information Request FOI EDU-220106, November 2022; see also FOI EDU-160070, February 2017 and EDU-120041, May 2012.
(3)Freedom of Information Request FOI EDU-220106.
(4)Constitution Act 1867, Section 93A (1997) states subsections 1-4 of s.93 do not apply to Quebec.; Constitution Amendment Proclamation (Newfoundland), 1998.
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The Legal Details of our Case (PDF)
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What the Ontario Government Does Not Want You to Know about Separate School Funding (PDF)
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Quebec Abolished Separate School Funding (PDF)
OPEN and the Plaintiffs in our case. (PDF)
One Public Education Now (OPEN) Summary. (PDF - revised Feb 2021)
Separate Schools - The Costs - Part I - Who Pays. (PDF - revised Oct 2018)
Separate Schools - The Costs - Part II - Why Abolishing Public Funding for Separate Schools Would Save Money. (PDF - revised Oct 2018)
More on the Costs, Financial and Otherwise, of Funding of Separate Schools. (PDF - revised Oct 2018)
Renton Patterson
Reva Landau
Adrienne Havercroft
Mailing address
c/o Civil Rights in Public Education (CRIPE)
Box 491, Pembroke ON K8A 6X7