Ontario independent schools launch legal challenge alleging exclusion from COVID-19 funding

Published Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:01PM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, July 28, 2021 6:19PM EDT
TORONTO - An Ontario court is poised to determine whether private schools are entitled to pandemic support from the province after three schools launched a legal challenge over the government's allocation of federal COVID-19 funding.
The schools -- two in Toronto and one in Kitchener, Ont. -- argue that in doling out the provincial portion of the federal Safe Return to Class Fund, the Ontario government left out some 1,500 independent institutions and the more than 150,000 children who attend them.
In an application that has not yet been tested in court, they allege the funding was withheld for “no justifiable reason” given that independent schools have been subject to the same health restrictions and closures as publicly funded ones.

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