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Tots Trip To Kindergarten |Hands- Off Attitude Taken Referred To Supreme Court In Ottawa To Que. Voting By DON, MacLACHLAN REGINA (CP)--Ingrid Bint- lished a separate schoul.., all ratepayers of the same fre- ligious denomination in. the dis- board says it has not considered doing so. in Mr, Bintner's cas¢ There are two areas in Sas ner is a-brown-eyed five-year-'trict are bound to contribute to katchewan where non-Catholic old who had the Grade 2 reader licked when she was four, Her parents decided she was bored sitting at home and wanted her to go to kindergarten. Ingrid probably doesn't care but her Roman Catholic father | wanted her to go to public school kindergarten. Last July, the Regina public school hoard, to which he pays taxes, refused to enrol. her. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the de- 4q cision... The board cited the School) Act of 1905 and a 1916 Privy|the Council ruling that Roman Cath- olics must support the separate schools in their area. If Ingrid' was to go.to achool, at all, it had to be a public school or a private kindergar- ten, The separate schoo! board operates no kindergartens here and has no plans for any at present, Education Minister George Trapp says the 1905 act and the Privy Council ruling mean that children of Catholic parents must attend a separate school, He says no one enforced the law until 1964 when Regina school accommodation became strained, -- Previously, the Regina board allowed Catholic children from separate school areas to attend public elementary schools as long as their parents were pay- ing public school taxes BAYS LAW 'ANTIQUATED' Bernard J. Bintner stopped paying separate school taxes in 1958 and has paid public. school taxes ever since. When the board made its ruling, four of his children were allowed to re- main in public schools Ingrid was the second Catho- lic child refused admission to public school kindergarten, Mr. Bintner, a prosperous oil com- pany manager, says he spent several thousand dollars in his court battle to have her en- rolled, The 52-year-old former high school teacher says the law is antiquated, Unless it is changed, he says, he'll send Ingrid to private school, "even if I have to create one myself."" She now is in private kindergarten The Privy Council, ruling in 1916 that a Regina Catholic could not transfer his taxes to the public school system from the separate schools (as Mr. Bintner was to do 42 years later), said: "Where the minority of rate- the support of stich schools." OBJECTS TO DICTATION Mr. Bintner maintains 'minorities have set up separate systems. Neither Quinton ' nor Gravelbourg, in a French-speak- 80" ing area, reports any problems ernment has no right to dictat® Sip the Jaw. which school a child should at- tend and complains that only Saskatchewan has such a law, Mr, Trapp says it has gained general acceptance Ingrid's father says his stand not opposition 'to separate -hools or their quality, nor a rre] with his church, but a beNef '"'governmént should be st people to enforce a church?s wishes," Mr. Bintner paid separate school taxes and sent his chil- dren to separate school until he moved to a house on fashion- able Calder Crescent in 1958, "I decided this was the time I could afford to make my stand," he said He started paying public school taxes and transferred his children to public schoo! Board chairman Alex'S. Coch rane says that in 1961 'we weren't happy about the con- stant demand for (Catholic) children to get in, particularly in kindergarten asked the education for guidance,' Allen FE is % 80 we department jlakeney, then edu- cation minister, wrote back say ing he interpreted the law, on the basis of the Privy Council decision, as ruling: 'The test is not one of.tax support but of religious allegiance." LAW* NOT ENFORCED The first enforcement of the law came in August, 1964, when L; Lepage tried to enrol his five-year-old son in kindergar ten, The public school board re fused, citing accommodation problems, Mr, Trapp says separate schools haven't tried to enforce | the Jaw in a bid to collect taxes from Catholics. The Regina Mr. Bintner says he can't un- rderstand why two of his nine 'children can be at public high school while Ingrid is denied admission to a public school kindergarten High school students are cove ered under the Secondary Fdu- cation Act, which _ provides parents can opt out of a sep- arate school district and pay publie school taxes for high school children Joseph P. Deiss, secretary- treasurer of the Regina sepa- rate school board, suggests the provision will disappear as sep- arate high schools are built; Mr, Trapp forecasts it will just be used less INJUNCTION BID FAILED No comment was available from church authorities but Mr Deiss says separate school board members,' although divided on the law, feel 'some sympathy for the few that are involved,"' School officials estimate there are perhaps 150 Catholic chil- dren still in public elementary schools here but could give no estimate of the number in pub lic high schools Mr. Bintner last applied for a Queen's court injunction preventing th public school board from deny ing admission to Ingrid. He was refused The bid was December Bench based on a sec tion of the Saskatchewan Bill of} Rights which says everyone hall enjoy education without | regard to "race, creed, religion, | color or ethnic or national ori gin."' 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Some Liberal MPs say privat- ely the government of Premier Jean Lesage is in trouble be- cause of stiff tax increases, pockets of unemployment, de pressed farm prices and an at tractive new platform featured by the Union Nationale. But other Liberals deny this saying Mr. Ie stock is high, A handful MPs with close friends among the provin- cial Liberal candidates are ex pected to campaign in their rid- ings , MAY REMAIN ALOOF The Progressive ye party has no official connections with the Union Nationale with the newly-formed Quebec Conservative parts Conserva tive MPs are expected to re- age's of Conservalt or which also refused the tion, In March he. un fully appealed to the Supreme Court Chief Justice @, M, Culliton of the provincial appeal court ruled that the public school pol icy did not constitute discrim ination as envisaged by the 1947 injune- uccess Bill of Rights, e main aloof from the campaign for the provincial election Sun- day, June 5 x f Clement Vincent, the. popular Conservative MPs who resigned his Nicolet - Yamaska federal seat to run as Union Nationale candidate in Nicolet, is consid- ered air isolated case, He had been thinking of entering pro- vincial polities for some time and his--federal-riding is--badly carved up in the new electoral man say they havé no intention of participating in the Quehec campaign in any way, They have no ties with the Quebec Socialist party, which is quasi- separatist Creditiste Leader Real Caou- ette said in an interview he has remained "completely re- moved" from the 'provincial rage so far and hopes this will continue.- But he might cam- paign later for the newly-formed ofher policies, Yollowed by So-\talks will tackle @ taz-sharing| THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, Mey 9, 1966 7 cial Credit reforms. agreement for the next five Government leaders are|years, Both major parties in watching the Quebec campaign| Quebec are campaigning for a closely for indications of what\sharply-increased share of di- to expect from the Quebec de- rect taxes, legation at crucial federal-pro- vincial conferences in June and KEEP If STRAIGHT TRAINS DROP TAXES e MAIDSTONE, England en| RAINHAM, England (CP) The Kent Naturalists' Trust|Colin Brittain won a reduction . changed its name to the Kent\in local taxes because the rail- Trust for Nature Conservation|way intrudes on his privacy, next fall, FISH TRAUAS LABELS because would - be members|His home backs onto a railway The June 16-19 meeting in Vic-| In Ontario alone, the fresh|were confused, The president,|junction and he complained that toria will deal mainly with both|water hefring has three other|Lord Brahourne, expinined in-jpassengers stare into the win- touchy subjects in Quebec. names? sco, tullibee and gray-\dignantly, "They thought wejdows of the house when trains The fall federal - provincial! back. \ were a nudist elub,"" are stopped at the signals. 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