There are Muslim children who want to spend 15 minutes every Friday praying in an empty classroom so they don't have to leave the school grounds and miss more classes than necessary. Seems an easy enough thing to accommodate. Why not? What's all the fuss? Indeed, it's been going on in most schools with a sizeable Muslim student body for 20 years but has somehow become a political hot potato now. 

This is inexcusable pandering to the redneck vote. I doubt anyone protesting this cares at all about the issue, they just want to use it to promote their own political agenda. It's been a vote grabber for Kellie Leitch and it shored up the Conservative vote in the last election, which was in freefall. But the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which the Harper Conservatives do not like, enshrines freedom of religion. And Canadian law required reasonable accommodation.

I'm sorry, but I don't see a brief break for prayer on a Friday afternoon as being an intolerable burden on the taxpayer.