Ontario's Premier dissembles: Wynne tries to distance accused child pornographer Levin from her Sex Ed agenda

Ontario's OISE Premier Kathleen Wynne today tried to distance herself and her controversial sex education curriculum from Benjamin Levin, the accused child pornographer who ran the Ministry of Education while she held that portfolio as Minister.

“Ministers and deputy ministers do not write curriculum,” said Wynne, a former education minister whose revamp of sex education was kiboshed by ex-premier Dalton McGuinty in 2010 after some religious groups complained it was too risque....So you know, any suggestion that there was that kind of interference, it just demonstrates a lack of understanding of how curriculum actually is written,” the premier said.

Accused child pornographer Ben Levin 
with Kathleen Wynne in June 2013

Premier Wynne must hope that the public really does have no understanding of how government works. Of course Ministers and Deputy Ministers do not write curriculum. But they are also responsible for the ones introduced in their Ministries. But more significantly, they appoint and have great influence over the advisors and "stakeholders" chosen to formulate those policies.  (more...)

Ontario's Premier dissembles: Wynne tries to distance accused child pornographer Levin from her Sex Ed agenda