text: Catholics got their own school system as a result of political negotiations when identities were religiously-based and the two big ethnic groups were French Canadians and English Canadians, the first being Catholic and the other being Protestant.
  
  Since then we have moved away from identities based on religion, thank God! (Irony intended.)
  
  Quebec did away with religious-based school boards in 2000, they were replaced by language-based school boards, reflecting the fact that in Quebec, language-based cultural identities have replaced religion-based ones.