Posted on behalf of CRIPE, Secular Connexion, OPEN, Center For Inquiry Canada , and Humanist Ottawa and the hundreds of people who have worked on this issue for the past 30+ years.

MPP Jessica Bell (NDP University-Rosedale) has agreed to present a petition at Queen’s Park, calling for the elimination of public funding for the Catholic School systems. We need your assistance in circulating physical copies of the attached petition and returning them to Petitions / Centre for Inquiry Canada | PO Box 83045, Ottawa RPO Bank Walkley, Ontario K1V 1A3 no later than October 1, 2023.

Your signature will help to ensure that this petition is presented in the provincial legislature and will attract media attention and raise public awareness. This is another step in the eventual, inevitable withdrawal of discriminatory public funding for a school system that is not open to all.

Please help us to get signatures. Please share the petition on social media, through your website, in person at any events you hold, and by requesting that your members sign and share it. (The petition is attached to this email. You are encouraged to upload it to your website and otherwise make it available to supporters in Ontario.)

To be presented to the Legislative Assembly, a petition must meet the following rules (taken from https://www.ola.org/en/get-involved/petitions):

• It must ask for an action that is within the jurisdiction of the Legislative Assembly.
• It must use clear and respectful language.
• The text of the petition must be at the top of every page of signatures.
• All signatures must be original. They must be written directly on the petition.
• Each petitioner must print their name and address and sign their name under the text of the petition.
• Petitioners must be residents of Ontario.
• The petition must be addressed to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
• The petition must be written, typewritten, or printed. Emailed, faxed, photocopied, or online petitions are not allowed.

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Please note:

Do not change or annotate the petition. Any changes, including written notations may invalidate the form, including all signatures on the page. If you have technical questions please contact Petitions@Centreforinquiry.caFor more information about the elimination of funding for the Catholic School system see: http://open.cripeweb.org/aboutOpen.html

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