Mr. Rey Pagtakhan: With the proposed Term 17, if we set aside any anxiety one may have as to whether this is to be challenged and the challenges are to be successful or not, if we set aside for a moment those concerns and considerations—which are legitimate, I must admit, in a society where honest differences of opinion could exist—would you not agree that the proposed paragraph (2), which
mandates courses in religious instruction, albeit non-denominational, indeed places an obligation on the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador that those courses in religion will be there and that therefore this will subserve the s
...[+++]piritual side of education?
M. Rey Pagtakhan: Abstraction faite des chances de réussite d'une contestation judiciaire, et je reconnais que ce sont des préoccupations légitimes, ne reconnaissez-vous pas que le paragraphe (2), qui crée l'obligation d'offrir l'instruction religieuse, même si elle n'est pas confessionnelle, oblige donc la province de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador à assurer ces cours de religion, encourageant ainsi la formation religieuse?