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ONTARIO MUNICIPAL ELECTION 2006

Campaign Life Catholic Questionnaire
for Ontario Catholic School Trustee Candidates

Trustee Questionnaire Preamble

Education is of crucial importance to families and to the general well being of societies. Schools are the principal modern institutions by which societies recreate themselves and transmit sound values to their citizens. Catholic schools exist to teach and transmit the truths of the Catholic faith as taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

The school trustee for Catholic school boards holds grave responsibility, being an elected steward of the school system, empowered to ensure that Catholic schools faithfully uphold and transmit the fullness of that teaching in every part of the school curriculum and in the social environment of the school.

Trustee Questionnaire

If elected as a trustee of your Catholic school board:
  1. Will you personally uphold and work toward the public promotion of total fidelity to the official moral, social and dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church? (Current examples include the illicitness of abortion, contraception and homosexual practice)
    YES___ NO___

  2. Will you oppose teachings and attitudes in the school setting that undermine respect for and the dignity of human life from conception to natural death?
    YES___ NO___

  3. Will you actively promote Catholic social teaching, the importance of prayer and a regular sacramental life?
    YES___ NO___

  4. Will you work to ensure that guest speakers, educational materials that enter the premises of Catholic schools (e.g., library resources, curriculum texts) and all approved school activities are consistent with and do not undermine the morality and teachings of the Church?
    YES___ NO___

  5. Will you uphold, actively promote and defend the board’s right to invite into its schools only those health personnel (e.g. nurses, counselors and other health professionals) who will respect Catholic Church teaching?
    YES___ NO___

  6. Will you work to ensure that your Catholic school board enacts a policy requiring all agents and employees of the board to uphold the rights of custodial parents to direct and control the education of, and any medical treatment provided to, their dependent children attending its schools?
    YES___ NO___