Tear Down The Wall--One School System For All Conference.

The Conference is sponsored by the One School System Network [OSSN]

If you are concerned about discrimination and special privilege for one group of Ontario citizens (ie; Catholics) then you should find this conference of interest.

Location:  North York Civic Centre   5100 Yonge  Street  Toronto, ON M2N 5V7

Date:   Saturday, 28th May, 2011

Time:   9:30-6:00 pm

Admission:  $20.00    $5.00 for students and seniors. [includes refreshments]

Pay at the door or by cheque.

Cheques to be written out to One School System Network and sent to:

 PO Box 8733 Stn T

Ottawa   ON    K1G 3J1

 For inquires, please send an email to:  sheila@secularism.net or call 613 738 7720

                                        PROGRAM

Registration:      9:30 am (open all day)

10:00 am      OPENING REMARKS FROM MODERATOR 

                       Gary Fitzgibbon, One School System Network

HISTORY

From the Relics of History

Background history of why we have two school systems.

Speaker: Bill Grubb from Civil Rights in Public Education

DISCRIMINATION

                UN Declares Canada Guilty of Discrimination       

UN ruling on the Ontario school system

Speaker: Renton Patterson from Civil Rights in Public Education

       

               

Listen to the Children

The universal rights of children

Speaker: Homa Arjmand from the No Sharia Campaign

10.45 – 11.00     MID-MORNING BREAK with refreshments

When teaching is not enough     

Teachers being denied employment at separate schools.

Speaker: Barbara Santamaria from Civil Rights in Public Education

The long and short distances of schooling   

The insane policy of forcing children out of their neighbourhood to attend school.

Speaker: Richard Thain from Secular Ontario

The Cultural Division 

No other religion receives public funds for schools

Speaker: Justin Trottier from the Centre For Inquiry Canada

An Inconvenient Truth

                   The separate school policy on sexual orientation

Speakers: Andrea Houston from xtra

12:00 – 12:30 pm        Q & A period

12:30– 1:30 pm LUNCH

FINANCIAL ASPECTS:

Shattering the Myth of Separate School Funding 

Dismantling the myth about only Catholic taxpayers   

funding separate schools

                Speaker: Frank de Jong from the Green Party

Saving Over a Billion Dollars a Year    

The true cost of having two school systems

Speaker: Mike Evans from the Canadian Secular Alliance 

Political Action

What must be done

Speaker: Malcolm Buchanan Civil Rights in Public Education

2:15–

3:00           COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCE

3:00           CLOSING REMARKS

                Gary Fitzgibbon, One School System Network

3:00–

6:00          NETWORKING