Robert Libman: Legault is right to defend funding for religious schools

The recent controversy that erupted over allegations that teachers at Bedford elementary were introducing Islamic religious concepts in the public school reignited the debate about secularism. The Parti Québécois, ever willing to feast on issues of “us versus them,” proposed a motion in the National Assembly to toughen Quebec’s secularism law, but conflated the issue with putting an end to public financing of all private religious schools. Read More