OSS Network Press Conference (22/6/07)
On Friday, June 22, 2007 at 10 AM in the Media Room at Queen's Park a new organization, One School System Network (OSSN), introduced itself and its 10 current member organizations: OSSN seeks the elimination of religious discrimination and costly duplication in the Ontario school system through the establishment of a single, secular, publicly funded school system for each official language (English and French). OSSN calls for a merger of the assets of Ontario's public and separate systems in the new English and French secular systems. OSSN calls upon the Government of Ontario to uphold its obligations under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and various international human rights instruments by withdrawing public funding for all sectarian religious schools. OSSN encourages the Liberals and NDP to join the Greens to support one publicly funded system for each official language to avoid the costly and socially divisive Conservative proposal for extended funding.
Ron Banerjee, Hindu Conference of Canada:
Malcolm Buchanan, Civil Rights in Public Education:
Jan Johnstone, Progressive Trustee Network:
Farzana Hassan, Muslim Canadian Congress:
