http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/10/exaggeration-is-truth-that-has-lost-its-temper-khalil-gibran-paranoia-and-equality-in-north-america%e2%80%99s-schools/ The official Web log for Great Decisions 2007 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:52:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/10/exaggeration-is-truth-that-has-lost-its-temper-khalil-gibran-paranoia-and-equality-in-north-america%e2%80%99s-schools/#comment-438 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:29:09 +0000 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/10/exaggeration-is-truth-that-has-lost-its-temper-khalil-gibran-paranoia-and-equality-in-north-america%e2%80%99s-schools/#comment-438 [...] Institutionally, the Government in the Province of Ontario in Canada offers many programs for new immigrants in society, but when the issue places minority groups against other minority groups the Government has often institutionalised and tried to justify some groups getting funding, while others go without. No other issue makes this evident beyond funding of only Catholic Schools in Ontario. In Ontario it is prohibited for other religions to have access to funding for faith based schools with the justification being that opening funding for faith based schools promotes the “segregation” of people in Canada. Despite this statement it goes without mention from the same Government representatives that their current policy is doing precisely what they are campaigning they are strictly against. While no one is anti-Catholic in any manner, it is completely unjustified to prohibit funding for some groups and not others. This was raised as a problem of inequality in a 1989 UN Report on the issue that suggested that there was no other just measure unless all are funded or none are funded. In addition to this fiasco, the Government two months ago were criticized for funding ethnic communities in Ontario without properly recording the funding going out and to which organizations. The opposition was called on as being anti-immigrant and racist upon questioning Ontario Primier McGuinty, only to find out that in an Official Inquiry into the issue that undocumented funds were given to many minority societies without documentation and with funds well above the requested amounts. This embarrassment of Ontario’s ethnic communities and involvement in a corrupt process has gone unresolved to date. An election highlighting these issues is taking place Oct 10th. [...] […] Institutionally, the Government in the Province of Ontario in Canada offers many programs for new immigrants in society, but when the issue places minority groups against other minority groups the Government has often institutionalised and tried to justify some groups getting funding, while others go without. No other issue makes this evident beyond funding of only Catholic Schools in Ontario. In Ontario it is prohibited for other religions to have access to funding for faith based schools with the justification being that opening funding for faith based schools promotes the “segregation” of people in Canada. Despite this statement it goes without mention from the same Government representatives that their current policy is doing precisely what they are campaigning they are strictly against. While no one is anti-Catholic in any manner, it is completely unjustified to prohibit funding for some groups and not others. This was raised as a problem of inequality in a 1989 UN Report on the issue that suggested that there was no other just measure unless all are funded or none are funded. In addition to this fiasco, the Government two months ago were criticized for funding ethnic communities in Ontario without properly recording the funding going out and to which organizations. The opposition was called on as being anti-immigrant and racist upon questioning Ontario Primier McGuinty, only to find out that in an Official Inquiry into the issue that undocumented funds were given to many minority societies without documentation and with funds well above the requested amounts. This embarrassment of Ontario’s ethnic communities and involvement in a corrupt process has gone unresolved to date. An election highlighting these issues is taking place Oct 10th. […]

]]> http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/10/exaggeration-is-truth-that-has-lost-its-temper-khalil-gibran-paranoia-and-equality-in-north-america%e2%80%99s-schools/#comment-422 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:19:29 +0000 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/10/exaggeration-is-truth-that-has-lost-its-temper-khalil-gibran-paranoia-and-equality-in-north-america%e2%80%99s-schools/#comment-422 [...] Institutionally, the Government in the Province of Ontario in Canada offers many programs for new immigrants in society, but when the issue places minority groups against other minority groups the Government has often institutionalised and tried to justify some groups getting funding, while others go without. No other issue makes this evident beyond funding of only Catholic Schools in Ontario. In Ontario it is prohibited for other religions to have access to funding for faith based schools with the justification being that opening funding for faith based schools promotes the “segregation” of people in Canada. Despite this statement it goes without mention from the same Government representatives that their current policy is doing precisely what they are campaigning they are strictly against. While no one is anti-Catholic in any manner, it is completely unjustified to prohibit funding for some groups and not others. This was raised as a problem of inequality in a 1989 UN Report on the issue that suggested that there was no other just measure unless all are funded or none are funded. In addition to this fiasco, the Government two ago were criticized for funding ethnic communities in Ontario without properly recording the funding going out and to which organizations. The opposition was called on as being anti-immigrant and racist upon questioning Ontario Primer McGuinty, only to find out that in an inquiry into the issue that undocumented funds were given to many minority societies without documentation and with funds well above the requested amount. This embarrassment of Ontario’s ethnic communities and involvement in a corrupt process has gone unresolved to date. An election highlighting these issues is taking place Oct 10th. [...] […] Institutionally, the Government in the Province of Ontario in Canada offers many programs for new immigrants in society, but when the issue places minority groups against other minority groups the Government has often institutionalised and tried to justify some groups getting funding, while others go without. No other issue makes this evident beyond funding of only Catholic Schools in Ontario. In Ontario it is prohibited for other religions to have access to funding for faith based schools with the justification being that opening funding for faith based schools promotes the “segregation” of people in Canada. Despite this statement it goes without mention from the same Government representatives that their current policy is doing precisely what they are campaigning they are strictly against. While no one is anti-Catholic in any manner, it is completely unjustified to prohibit funding for some groups and not others. This was raised as a problem of inequality in a 1989 UN Report on the issue that suggested that there was no other just measure unless all are funded or none are funded. In addition to this fiasco, the Government two ago were criticized for funding ethnic communities in Ontario without properly recording the funding going out and to which organizations. The opposition was called on as being anti-immigrant and racist upon questioning Ontario Primer McGuinty, only to find out that in an inquiry into the issue that undocumented funds were given to many minority societies without documentation and with funds well above the requested amount. This embarrassment of Ontario’s ethnic communities and involvement in a corrupt process has gone unresolved to date. An election highlighting these issues is taking place Oct 10th. […]

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