The point is, a Canadian Catholic pays taxes and he supports the Church through the collection at Mass. The taxes them go to the Catholic school because Canada subsidizes Catholic education. If the government stops the subsidy of the school then the Canadian Catholic picks up the slack by increasing his private contribution to the Church. His taxes should be refunded by the same amount because he already paid for his kids’ education.
But I further question the premise that since the government pays the subsidy it gets to decide what the school should teach. This premise is pure silliness: the reason people hire professionals is because they are not professionals themselves. When I ask the services of a doctor I do not get to tell him how to cure my illness, when I ask the services of a plumber I do not tell him how to do plumbing. If that minister of theirs thinks in her head that she knows what the children should learn in school, she should get government schools funded and teach whatever nonsense she thinks is proper in these schools. If the Canadian voter and taxpayer prefers Catholic education to Brotenskulz, then Ms Broten should pipe down and pay for her educational projects with her own money.
The Liberal thinks of the schools as an arm of the state. This is the real rationale behind compulsory education. The schools ought to be free, but not compulsory. That, of course, creates a problem in a society in which youngsters find so little work that they continue in school until their mid 20s, as wards of the state.
I am actually amused that you don’t think the government tells schools what to teach.