Why so focused on FAIR?  Life isn't fair. Focus instead on "does it work"?  Based on a scan of years of news clippings, Toronto's public system is highly dysfunctional compared to the Catholic system.  And if TCDSB teachers and students were forced to cross over and merge into TDSB, the cost structure (taxpayer burden) would be tens of millions more p.a. because its not a zero-sum exercise.