ontario and the jewish community not always a love affair.
Martin Sable(author)
George Drew and the Rabbis: Religious Education in Ontarios Public Schools
In 1944, Ontario Premier George Drews minority Conservative government introduced compulsory religious education into the Provinces public schools. The enabling legislation, the Drew Regulation, prescribed two one-half hour periods of religious instruction per week. A response to world-wide godlessness symbolized by Nazi Germanys crimes, remarkably, the Drew Regulation remained in place for forty-six years. Over time it became clear that the Regulation was being used for decidedly Protestant purposes, and the task of opposing the Regulation fell to the Jewish community. The Jewish community, sensitive to the abuses visited on Jewish and other minority children by this Regulation, was nevertheless hamstrung by its reticence to assume a high public profile, especially when this meant clashing with deeply-felt convictions of the general community. Among the most outspoken critics of the Regulation in the Jewish community was Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, spiritual leader of Torontos Holy Blossom Temple who found himself at odds, not only with the general community, but also, for various reasons, with sectors of the Jewish establishment. I guess this is the canadian way you blame a few light headed politicians for a march but you ignore an injust law for 46 years