Students at McGill University here have voted that at least one member of the proposed new Superior Council of Education in this province should be Jewish, according to the McGill Daily, the student newspaper. The newspaper stated that student delegates “professing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths” have endorsed such a proposal unanimously.
A resolution adopted by the McGill students declared: “Of the total enrollment at Protestant schools, 25 percent in the primary grades and 34 percent in the secondary schools come from families of the Jewish faith. Our overriding obligation is to protect confessional differences; every sizable religious group deserves this consideration.” The resolution pointed out that, at the time the present basic law, the British North America Act, came into force, in 1867, “few Jews lived in Canada.”
On a related matter, the eastern region of the Canadian Jewish Congress stated today, in a written submission to the Royal Commission on Taxation in this province, that Jews in the Metropolitan area outside Montreal and Cutremont “are denied the benefits of the Education Act, as amended in 1961, which provides for the payment of tuition for children attending recognized independent high schools.”
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