text: The Catholic Church, and co-litigants from other brands of superstition, took that argument all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and lost. 
  
  Newfoundland and Labrador voters twice voted to replace the discriminatory Church Run but Public Funded Denominational School System with a modern Secular School System. 
  
  Clerics greedy for cash and control of schools tried to overturn the clear result of 2 referendums on the issue. 
  
  http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/collapse-denominational-education.php
  
  "The Roman Catholic Church challenged school reform at both the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and the Newfoundland Court of Appeal, but court rulings invariably upheld the constitutionality of the revised Term 17."
  
  In any case I remember Pierre Trudeau telling British legislators "hold your nose if you have to, but pass it". Even he knew that the repatriation blurb had defects.