If Ontario is ever to expand school funding, it seems pretty clear it won’t come as an imperative from the judiciary. The problem is, Section 29 of the Charter unambiguously shields school funding from scrutiny under any other section — an artifact of its seminal importance in Canadian history. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementMore intriguing is the argument that lack of access to Jewish education threatens the very survival of Jewish culture. And the instrument of transmitting such memory is education,” Grassroots’ founder Mordechai Ben-Dat told the Superior Court of Justice in 2023. After Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, the cause took on a different sort of urgency as Canadian Jews found themselves targeted — not least at public schools.

Source: National Post February 09, 2026 13:10 UTC