Halton Catholic District School Board and Orange Ontario

Ontario: The Halton board is believed to be the only one in Ontario to issue such a ridiculous order, according to Toronto Star. In recent days, local critics of the policy have taken to social media, saying the oath is a throwback to the days when Orange Ontario was dominated by residents whose ancestry traced back to England and Scotland and that it deliberately ignores the multicultural environment in which we live today. The move, mandated last month by elected trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board, means the 31,000 students plus all staff in the school system must swear allegiance at the start of every single school day to a foreign monarch who lives oversees and rarely visits this country. The board oversees 45 elementary schools, nine secondary schools and three continuing education facilities covering Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills. Also, there strong public opinion across Canada that, as an independent nation, we should no long require our citizens, including schoolchildren, to bow and scrape to a foreign rulers, even one like Queen Elizabeth who is widely respected. Many students at those schools or their parents originally came from countries where the Queen means nothing or, in some cases, is a symbol of historic oppression under British colonial rule. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.