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Originally Posted by Louis-Riel
I don't think that people are explicitly anti-francophone, and certainly not like it would have been a generation or two ago. But I do think that anti-francophone bias is a massive blindspot. The discourse surrounding Cambridge Street PS is that it is a neighbourhood school and that the local anglos have the right to be able to walk to school. Must be nice. Most francophones who live west of the Rideau Canal have to bus to school. Louise-Arbour, both the dreadful temporary building and the new school that should already be built, was meant to address this issue.
This is partly due to the fact that the government of Ontario (under Wynne) changed the rules so that schools cannot be easily transferred from one board to another. Now boards have to pay fair market value in order to acquire empty/underused schools - which means that taxpayers pay twice for the same school.
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Your statement seems filled with claims of bias when the facts you present show none. Anglophones should have a right to walk to a neighbourhood school. Francophones can't because there are less of them. In Gatineau it is the reverse. Fair market value doesn't cost the taxpayers anything it just goes from one board to the other. It keeps them from hoarding schools as they get funds they can use elsewhere.
If Francophones schools are more over-crowded it would be from the huge influx of non-francophones and marginal francophones choosing the board (s). With almost all kids in French Immersion it's easy to see why they choose actual French board so often.
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