Ontario’s Education Minister has taken the unusual step of asking a Catholic school board to suspend a controversial policy that forbids students from raising money for charities that support abortion, euthanasia and other activities opposed by the church.
The Halton Catholic board passed a motion in February stating it would no longer provide or facilitate financial donations to non-profits or charities that publicly support, “either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell research.”