Ontario conservatives commit political suicide by backing faith-based schools

[Newsjock]

TORONTO — Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory's proposal to fund faith-based schools has inflicted enormous damage on his party, leaving it trailing 15 points behind the Liberals on the eve of Wednesday's election, according to a new poll.

Only 27 per cent of voters support the Conservatives, making it all but certain that Dalton McGuinty's Liberals, at 42 per cent, will win a second majority government, says the survey conducted by The Strategic Counsel for The Globe and Mail and CTV.

The Liberal lead is not due to a growth in their popularity, but because support for the Conservatives has fallen to near historic lows. The survey says the biggest beneficiaries are the province's second-tier parties - the New Democrats and Greens - that are attracting the “protest vote” mainly outside the Toronto area.

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[provis99]

1. and McGimpy is such a weak twit

Seriously, the Conservatives could have run a hamburger against that dope and won a victory. John Tory is a worse candidate than a hamburger. Not than I'm complaining.

[monktonman]

2. They probably look south of the border

and realize their assholes are the same as our assholes
and aren't having any of it.
Good for you Ontario.

[Dave From Canada]

3. We already fund faith-based schools. It's called the Catholic school board. The debate was whether

it's fair for one religion to recieve public funding, while other religions don't. Most of the other provinces in Canada publicly fund faith-based schools.

Most people don't realize, that the very first line in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is this...Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/