Ontario’s education minister balks at holding open consultation with parents on new sex-ed program

Sex-ed sloganeers Wynne and Sandals

TORONTO, February 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Pro-family groups have rejected the recent claim by Ontario’s education minister, Liz Sandals, that her Liberal government was unable to consult parents on a controversial sex-ed program, scheduled to be implemented in the province’s schools this fall.

“There’s no way that I can talk to two million parents,” Sandals said in a February 2 interview with Metroland Media Group.

Sandals instead defended her government’s November online survey of 4,000 parents, one per each Ontario school. “What we wanted to do was ensure that we had feedback that was a good sample.”

But such claims “won’t hold water in an information age,” points out Teresa Pierre, president of the Ontario parents-rights group, Parents As First Educators (PAFE). The government is fully capable of getting input from all Ontarians. More importantly, notes Pierre, “the input needs to be on the curriculum itself and not on almost meaningless general statements about teaching sex-ed.”  (more...)

Ontario’s education minister balks at holding open consultation with parents on new sex-ed program