The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a Catholic private school should not be obliged to teach its students a government ethics and religious culture program.
The government program introduces world religions from a secular, cultural and morally neutral perspective. But Loyola High School in Montreal wanted to be allowed to use its own course instead and to teach it from a Catholic perspective.
The school can now reapply to Quebec’s education department for an exemption on the requirement to teach the government program.
Schools in Quebec used to be organized along religious lines, but as society became progressively more secular, schools were reorganized along language lines in 1988. Some private schools retained their religious identities but they must teach a curriculum set by the provincial government.
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