Mad Mike
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This is how campaigning works, you have to throw a little red meat around to appease your base AND to suck the oxygen from the room.I read today that he plans on cancelling the sex-ed curriculum.
Wow. If this isn't pandering to a tiny sliver of the (not surprisingly, Toronto) population, I don't know what is, and it can only lead me to believe that he's yet another one of those crying about it without actually having read it.
I guess kids will just have to go back to learning about sex the "Old fashioned" way - via the internet and schoolyard conversations. Both are clearly known options for then getting valid factual information, after all.
One more reason for me to not vote for him. I hope someone with some sensibility gets to him on this topic and has a grown up conversation about it.
Repealing the 'sex ed' part isn't removing sex ed entirely, its rolling back some the controversial parts that are troublesome to faith groups -- the birds, bees, and STDs will still be there.
I don't think this is a sliver of the population, there are a lot of Muslim and Christian faiths that are not onside. I'm pretty sure the entire Catholic school system in Ontario has only paid lip service to the new curriculum, they deliver the controversial part of "sex ed" through the moral lens of the Catholic church. To understand their approach, read this: https://www.catholicregister.org/ho...struction-must-remain-true-to-church-teaching