REGINA A commission tasked with drawing new voting boundaries ahead of Saskatchewan's next provincial election is proposing no increase in the number of constituencies, despite the province's growing population.
From our perspective, this was about parental choice, he said. If the funding didn t come with the child, there would be a practical barrier for parents who wish to choose a Catholic faith-based education for their children.
The court battle launched in 2005 led to a landmark decision in 2017, in which Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench Justice Donald Layh ruled it was unconstitutional for the province to fund non-Catholic students at Catholic schools.
Funding non-minority faith students in faith-based schools violated both the Charter of Rights and the state s duty of religious neutrality, Layh wrote.
The case made its way to Saskatchewan s Court of Appeal, which delivered a unanimous decision in March 2020, saying separate schools could receive provincial government funding for students who are not Catholic.