Is Anyone Really Surprised At McGinty's Position

Herein, a cautionary tale from Ontario about politicians who pose as fighters against school segregation ... sometimes.

Segregation fighter goes AWOL

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

In the last Ontario election, Premier Dalton McGuinty made his opposition to publicly funding religious schools the defining issue of his campaign.

He condemned the idea -- proposed by Conservative Leader John Tory, who lost the election largely as a result -- as segregationist.

"If you want the kind of Ontario where we invite the children of different faiths to leave the public system and become sequestered and segregated in their own private schools," McGuinty warned, "then they should vote for Mr. Tory." But if they wanted all children learning together, they should vote for him. Most did.

Alas, the segregation fighter of the 2007 election, is nowhere to be found in 2008.

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McGuinty should veto black schools

McGuinty Sends Right Message Here's the Toronto Star article on McGuinty's response to black-focused schooling. He's get it exactly right. Now, no doubt Andrew Coyne will attribute this response to Islamophobia like he did McGuinty's response to Tory's segregation of Ontario's schools.