PC leader says he would scrap Liberal changes to sex-ed curriculum
Posted Aug 27, 2016 08:04:54 AM.
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TORONTO – Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown says if his party forms government after the 2018 election, he would scrap the Liberals’ sex-ed curriculum.
The curriculum was updated last year, for the first time since 1998, to include same-sex relationships, and the dangers of online bullying and sexting.
But some parts of the curriculum, particularly mentions of same-sex relationships, gender identity and masturbation, were controversial with some parents, who also complained the government should have consulted them more.
It prompted some parents to protest and even pull their children from public school, saying the new program is not appropriate for school-aged children and does not align with their values.
In a letter distributed Friday just a week before a byelection in Scarborough-Rouge River _ Brown says if elected, a PC government would scrap the curriculum and develop a new one in consultation with parents.
Brown told The Canadian Press in an interview in June that he would not repeal the curriculum if elected.
