I think better than you of the people of Ontario. I think that anti-Catholic prejudice is a thing of the past, except amongst the kind of religious bigots who would love to have the privileges that the Catholics now enjoy extended to themselves. I think the approach being advocated by some on here, which you and others poo-poo, is in fact the only way this issue could be dealt with without a very, very ugly election. Anti-Catholic prejudice is still alive and well in a lot of places, particularly amongst older people – you know that age group where we all went to school together before Davis instituted public financing allowing schools to open for my children, and everything was peace and tolerance. We saw a bit of it in the last provincial election and many Green supporters were expressing that, but an explicit campaign will bring out an undercurrent of intolerance that is still very prevalent in a lot of communities. And it will get very ugly fast.As we saw last election, they did not constitute a winning plurality for John Tory's Tories.
I am speaking about personal experience. It is still very much with us I am afraid. Visit your neighbourhood coffee shop and drop the seperate school issue into the conversation. It is, as I said, mostly in the older generations, but it is alive and well.
And it was not the bigots that went Tory in the last election, many of them went Green.