This is a welcome respite from political opportunism. The existence of tax-funded Catholic schools is a vestige of our bi-national history, not a principle of public education. It was designed to allow French-language education in majority-English provinces, where, by tradition alone, the francophones would expect such schools to be run by the Church. Which of course, is now an anachronism. The issue in public education is language of instruction, not religion of teachers, curriculum, or students. Catholic schools recruiting non-Catholics today is the height of hypocrisy. There was a reason why Catholic education was officially called "separate" in Ontario -- it was partly to accommodate Franco-Ontarians, and to keep the English-Catholic students away from the Heretic Protestants.