ANALYSIS: Public Funding Erodes Ideological Freedom, Say Ontario Catholic School Stakeholders

Grade 11 student Josh Alexander is arrested outside St. Joseph's Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ont., on Feb. 6, 2023, for disregarding the terms of a school suspension due to his protest against the school's transgender bathroom policy. Chris Dacey

News Analysis

Public funding means the government, not the church or the faith, pulls the ideological strings in Ontario’s Catholic school system, some stakeholders say. And this particularly affects how the schools handle matters of gender and sexuality.