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Date: 1866-06-29
By: True Witness
Citation: “No title”, True Witness (29 June, 1866)
Other formats: TBA

In view of the speedy realisation of the Quebec scheme of Union for the British North American Provinces, our Protestant friends of Lower Canada are beginning to bestir themselves on the school question; and we are told that Mr. Judge Day is actually at the Seat of Government, urging on school legislation in order to protect the interests of the Protestant minority.

No one can object to this. Every legal security that the Protestant minority may require to ensure to them their rights as parents over the education of their own children, should cheerfully be granted to them; but at the same time, and whilst the question is under discussion, it is but reasonable that the Catholic members of the Legislature should insist upon the giving to the Catholic minority of Upper Canada the very same legal guarantees that in Lower Canada are accorded to the Protestant minority. We are sure that Catholics here, in this Province, entertain no desire in any manner to limit the rights of Protestant parents; and we hope that the Protestants of Upper Canada will offer no opposition to any measures that may be brought forward for securing Catholic parents in their Province, against the interference in educational matters of a Protestant majority.