Public hearings needed on sex-ed

Demonstrators gathered at Queen's Park on Feb. 24 to protest the government's new sex-ed curriculum

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government has a simple narrative it wants you to believe about disgraced former deputy education minister Ben Levin, now a confirmed child pornographer.

It’s that Levin — whose vile crimes were fully exposed in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday as he pled guilty to three charges — had nothing to do with the development of Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum.

And that the Liberals fully consulted with the public on that curriculum.

Never mind that this narrative has nothing to do with reality.

The Liberals’ claim Levin didn’t write the sex-ed curriculum is a dodge.

Of course the deputy minister of education didn’t write the sex-ed curriculum.

He presided over its first version in 2010, as Joe Warmington’s Toronto Sun column clearly revealed Tuesday — using Levin’s own words about his role in the education ministry.  (more...)

Public hearings needed on sex-ed