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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Recap of Day 30 of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy

By
Harrison Faulkner
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On day 30 of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy, the NDP gave Trudeau the votes he needed to extend the Emergencies Act, Trudeau himself didn’t bother to show up in person and the Liberal public safety minister claimed that police officers showed restraint and professionalism during the violent crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters over the weekend.

In a historic moment in the House of Commons, Liberals and NDP MPs voted in lockstep to pass the Emergencies Act and extend Trudeau’s use of its unprecedented powers for at least another four weeks.

The extension came despite border blockades already having been cleared across the country and the protests in Ottawa having been crushed. 

The final vote was 185 to 151 in favour of passing the Emergencies Act. 

Jagmeet Singh and the NDP voted in favour, giving Trudeau’s Liberals the votes they needed to succeed.

All Conservative MPs, Bloc MPs and one Green Party MP – Mike Morrice – voted against the motion. 

After the vote had been read, interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen rose on a point of order to immediately introduce a motion to revoke Trudeau’s emergency declaration. 

Bergen had obtained the required 20 signatures of members to put the motion forward.

Liberal house leader Mark Holland then rose to say that because the vote was already counted, the House had to adjourn and Bergen’s motion was out of order.

“I say this to all Canadians,” Bergen responded. “Conservatives will continue to use every tool at our disposal to end the Prime Minister’s abusive Emergencies Act.” 

Bergen’s mic was then cut off. 

Trudeau himself voted remotely, not bothering to show his face in the House during the most consequential vote of his seven-year tenure as prime minister. 

Before the vote, Justin Trudeau had held a press conference declaring that his government was going to seek to extend the powers of the Emergencies Act despite border blockades and the Ottawa protests having come to an end. 

“Local and provincial authorities needed more tools to restore order and keep people safe,” Trudeau declared.

Trudeau claimed that while his government supported the right to peaceful protests and freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, change could only happen when people vote or run for office. 

In a purely political move, Trudeau also made support of the Emergencies Act a confidence vote on his government. If the vote had failed, it would likely have triggered an election.

“I can’t imagine that anyone who votes no is doing anything other than indicating that they don’t trust the government,” Trudeau said. 

After the Prime Minister’s press conference, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh had said that the NDP would be “reluctantly” supporting the motion – a declaration on which he and his party made good a few hours later.

Singh went on to say that the NDP would be pulling their support of the motion as soon as the Emergencies Act  is no longer needed – even though the vote extends the act by another four weeks. 

Speaking after the vote in the House of Commons, Trudeau’s Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said, “(w)e are in hourly consultation with our officials about the threat that has existed and continues to exist in this country.”

“(W)e undertake that as soon as it’s no longer required, we are prepared to lift those measures”

Meanwhile, Liberal public safety minister Marco Mendicino declared that the conduct of police officers over the weekend was “professional” and that officers showed “restraint.”

Deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland also spoke today, addressing concerns that people who had merely donated to the Freedom Convoy – even before the Emergencies Act had declared it illegal – were seeing their bank accounts frozen.

“The way to get your account unfrozen is to stop being part of the blockade and occupation,” she said – despite the Ottawa protests having ended and all blockades having been cleared across the country for almost a week. 

The Givesendgo set up by the Truckers for Freedom Convoy organizers had reached USD $9,732,208 by the time this article was published.

Vote on Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act passes with NDP support

By
Harrison Faulkner
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act passed a vital vote in the House of Commons on Monday thanks to the parliamentary support of Jagmeet Singh and the New Democratic Party (NDP).

185 MPs voted in favour of the act with 151 against.

The NDP sided with the Liberals in passing the motion, while the Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois opposed it. 

The Trudeau government invoked the act on Feb. 14, immediately granting itself unprecedented powers. However, the government needed to seek approval from the House of Commons within seven days in order to extend its use for at least another four weeks.

Had the vote had failed, the emergency declaration would have been revoked immediately. As a confidence vote, it would also likely have triggered a federal election. 

The passing of the motion in the House of Commons will keep the emergency measures in place until mid-March at the latest. The Senate must also vote on the government’s request, although this will serve more as a formality.

Immediately after the vote, interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen attempted to enter a motion recalling the use of the Emergencies Act. 

Her motion was ruled out of order.

“We will continue to fight this power grab by the Prime Minister and his government,” Bergen said in a statement following the vote.

“That’s why immediately following the vote, Conservatives gave notice of a motion to revoke the Prime Minister’s emergency. Liberal and NDP MPs will need to explain to Canadians why they are continuing to enforce a national state of emergency that gives the federal government far-reaching powers and authority.”

Since the act was invoked last Monday, supporters of the Freedom Convoy have had their bank accounts frozen, while police in Ottawa brutally cracked down on protesters over the weekend. All border blockades, including those in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, had already been cleared before or shortly after Feb. 14.  

Trudeau is the first Prime Minister in Canadian history to invoke the Emergencies Act since it was created as a successor to the War Measures Act in 1988. 

Earlier on Monday, Trudeau justified invoking the act and urged other MPs to support its continued use.

“Invoking the Emergencies Act has been necessary. Law enforcement agencies relied on it to set up secured areas in downtown Ottawa and at border crossings,” said Trudeau.

“It prevented foreign money from continuing to fund illegal blockades, and it’s making sure our borders remain open. It has been the responsible thing to do.”

Moments after the motion passed, MPs voted to adjourn Parliament until Feb. 28 – in the middle of a so-called national emergency.

RCMP confirms investigation into officers’ troubling chat messages about protest

By
Jonathan Bradley
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The RCMP has confirmed that it is looking into a series of group chat messages that allegedly document officers gloating over injured Freedom Convoy protesters.

“The RCMP is aware of the material circulating on social media pertaining to a chat group that includes some of its members, and we can confirm that we are looking into the matter,” said the police force in a statement on Sunday. “This material is not representative of those who have committed themselves to serving Canadians with integrity and professionalism.”

On Saturday night, leaked Whatsapp group chats allegedly from RCMP officers were posted to social media by Rebel News, appearing to show multiple officers cheering on the violent treatment of protesters, including the video of an elderly First Nations woman being knocked down and trampled by riot horses.

“Just watched that horse video – that is awesome!!! We should practice that manoeuvre,” wrote one member by the name of “Marca.”

Another member under the name of Andrew Nixon wrote, “(t)ime for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground.”

He added that they were going to make some “sweet OT (overtime)” that weekend, and urged his colleagues, “(d)on’t kick all of (the protesters) out until next weeks group gets our turn.”

Since the beginning of the Freedom Convoy, the RCMP said they have been working with municipal and provincial police forces in Ottawa to manage the protests.

All members of the RCMP, the police force said, “have a responsibility to hold themselves to the highest professional standards and are subject to the Code of Conduct of the RCMP at all times.” 

“This includes acting with integrity, fairness, and impartiality and avoiding any potential conflicts between their professional responsibilities and private interests,” they said. “The RCMP has put in place measures to ensure the continued integrity of police operations as well as the safety of our members.”

The RCMP’s announcement comes as a number of reports of police violence and unprofessionalism emerge from weekend action against protesters.

The Ontario Special Investigations Unit also announced that it would be opening investigations into several incidents. 

These investigations include the “serious injury” of a woman in an interaction with a police horse and the discharging of “less-lethal” firearms at protesters.

True North is following this developing story.

LEVY: Legacy media lapdogs have done Trudeau proud

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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It has been an extremely busy few days for Canada’s legacy media.

Concerned with paying the piper Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his generous media bailouts by sticking to the supreme dictator’s talking points, they played their parts very well.

They doxxed and harassed donors to the Freedom Convoy contained on lists hacked from GiveSendGo. They remained obsessive in their portrayal of the protesters as white supremacists, anti-semites and racists engaged in an “occupation.”

Damn the truth, they said.

You could almost hear them sniffing with disdain on social media at the working-class backgrounds of these dirty people invading their elitist little Ottawa enclave.

They openly cheered when the organizers were arrested. Some of the more sanctimonious among them listed the arrests like an Olympic medal count:

They implied that the protesters and donors had had it coming when their bank accounts were frozen under Trudeau’s highly draconian Emergencies Act.

They twisted themselves into pretzels trying to claim Ottawa Police did not overstep their authority by assaulting peaceful Canadians. 

Yet the video footage from independent media and citizen journalists said otherwise.  

As they have with the conservative media for years – I am proof positive of that – they offered not a word of support when True North reporter Andrew Lawton was pepper-sprayed or when Rebel News’s Alexa Lavoie was beaten with a baton and shot in the leg with a gas canister.

I have endured that kind of double standard for years.

I heard crickets from other media when as a Toronto Sun columnist I was escorted out of an Indigenous meeting by four armed cops, and when photographer Stan Behal and I were attacked at an Antifa rally.

I could give plenty more examples, but as a media outsider who tried to report the truth, I understood that pushback came with the territory.

Yet, that doesn’t apply to the legacy media. 

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when they held hands and gave themselves a group hug on Twitter for having to endure a few mean words from the Freedom Convoy protesters, oblivious to the fact that they had treated the protesters worse than dirt and never gave any of them a fair hearing.

In true narcissistic fashion, they registered their outrage on social media when they were banned from Freedom Convoy press conferences.

Some of the more arrogant and self-important CBC hacks even had the gall to try to bully American journalists for reporting the events as they saw them on the frontlines. 

This tweet from Carol Off of the CBC was particularly amusing given that  she was nowhere near the action:

When Sunday broke and downtown Ottawa had been ruthlessly cleared of people, they once again celebrated with pathetic hyperbole, calling it the “Battle of Wellington.”

I feel incredibly saddened that a craft that I have been passionate about for more than 31 years has become so incredibly devoid of fact-gathering.

As a journalist I have always felt an incredible need to connect with the underdog and to question authority, but the legacy media didn’t report the story in anything resembling an honest fashion or ask hard questions of Trudeau and his cronies. 

No. Instead, they made themselves part of the story.

They behaved like prima donnas, they mocked and berated the protesters and they looked down on the working class from their lofty, taxpayer-bought perches.

They did Justin Trudeau proud.

And that is nothing – absolutely nothing – to be proud of.

Canadian veteran begins protest march from Vancouver to Ottawa

By
Harley Sims
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Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veteran James Topp began his 4395-kilometre march from Vancouver to Ottawa on Sunday morning, departing from the Terry Fox monument downtown in solidarity with the truckers and working Canadians to bring an end to overbearing government mandates.

A crowd of around 100 people gathered outside B.C. Place to cheer Topp onward, offer him small gifts and hear him speak a few words. About 70 people had come to march with him through the streets of Vancouver, while a small handful appeared committed to going the distance to Ottawa.             

Asked by True North whether the violent crackdown on Ottawa protesters over the weekend had shaken his resolve, Topp said it has only strengthened him.

“I have to do this,” he said. “I have to do this.”

A drumming ceremony by Indigenous singers was followed by a singing of O Canada just as dawn broke and the overnight rain gave way to sunshine. Gulls cried overhead.

“This young man is a warrior,” said Indigenous drummer Carl Natrall, a Canadian Navy veteran from Esquimault. 

Speaking to Topp, he said, “it’s going to be a long journey. You’re going to face a lot of things. You’re going to face the weather, you’re going to face the people, you’re going to face yourself.”

“Warriors doesn’t mean going to battle all the time,” added Darcy, an Indigenous drummer from Manitoba. “It means keeping our families safe, sacrificing for our families. That’s the essence of a warrior.”

Topp, who served almost three decades with the Canadian Army, told his supporters it was okay to be afraid, and to make peace with it. He urged them to look to the example of Terry Fox, whose monument stood nearby – four statues growing in size to represent Fox becoming larger than life as his journey continued.

“Determination, dedication, perseverance,” Topp urged just before donning his rucksack. “The sounds of our footsteps are going to carry on in front of us. They are going to hear our feet out east.”

Topp made news a week ago when he appeared in full uniform at the Surrey border protest to announce his mission. He declared he would march from Vancouver to Ottawa to send politicians a message that the working Canadians who had built the country did not deserve what the government was doing to them under COVID.

Topp, whose story can be followed on his website CanadaMarches.ca, told True North in an exclusive interview last week that government policies and vaccine mandates had also been devastating for him personally. He said that the Freedom Convoy had given him new belief in his own strength and that of working people.

Calling veterans the guardians of Canada, he used the metaphor of a house to describe how he saw his national responsibility.

“So if we are in a house, and I am the guardian, and inside this house now, we have a spoiled child – a spoiled, entitled child,” he said. “And I’m not just talking about one person. I’m talking about a number of people running around inside the house, knocking stuff over, breaking windows, writing on the walls with crayon, and we as guardians are just watching this with our hands in our pockets.”

“And now, the child has gotten ahold of a box of matches,” he said. “As the guardians, I feel we have to sit that child down and have a talk about who built that house.”

After forming up into ranks, Topp and his followers performed a left wheel and headed north on Beatty Street. Five Canada geese honked as they flew in to land on a nearby high-rise.

By evening, Topp and his crew had walked 50km to Maple Ridge, where Olympian Gym put them up for the night. On Tuesday, he set out for Abbotsford, with plans to reach Hope by Wednesday.

Topp has said he will not accept money, urging any cash donations go to WoundedWarriors.ca. He is, however, looking for places to stay along the route as well as help with other details of the march. Topp’s team can be reached via CanadaMarches.ca and its corresponding Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages.

Alberta government challenging Trudeau’s Emergencies Act in court 

By
Jonathan Bradley
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The Alberta government has announced it will be initiating legal action in federal court against the Canadian government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Feb. 14 that he was implementing the never-before-used successor to the War Measures Act to crush ongoing protests against COVID-19 mandates. The Act came into effect immediately and did not require the premiers’ consent.

“The Emergencies Act was designed to come into effect at the failure of the state,” said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in an interview with Postmedia on Saturday. “However, there is no insurrection or coup.”

Kenney said that the Emergencies Act was “unjustified in the circumstances,” an “overreach,” a violation of due process and “an intrusion into provincial jurisdiction.” 

He added that he does not want people to misunderstand his motives, calling the situation in Ottawa “serious” and saying that “law and order has to be restored.” 

Police action against the protests in Ottawa had largely concluded on Monday, however, with sometimes violent crackdowns by law enforcement occurring Friday through Sunday.

Kenney added that police services currently have all of the powers they need through provincial authority and that the Canadian government does not need powers to seize and freeze people’s financial accounts. 

The banking provisions of the Emergencies Act, he said, were created to disrupt terrorism financing. Now, Kenney said, the Canadian government is using these sections to harass people who disagree with them. 

Kenney said that if the Canadian government continues to be allowed to freeze the assets of its political opponents, it would be concerning. 

Kenney revealed that during a teleconference with Trudeau earlier this week, six of the 10 premiers urged him not to invoke the Emergencies Act. Required only to consult with the provinces and not to agree with them, Trudeau went ahead and implemented the Act anyway. 

Kenney said he did not believe any other provinces would join Alberta’s court challenge, but he  left the invitation open. 

“This sets a dangerous precedent for the future if they can reach in over top of (the provinces) and usurp our jurisdiction on law enforcement,” he said. 

The Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association both announced on Thursday that they would be filing separate legal challenges against the Trudeau government for implementing the Emergencies Act to stop protests across Canada.

The House of Commons is expected to vote on the measure on Monday, which would see the Act extended for up to 30 days before another review.

U.S. Congresswoman supports asylum for Canadian convoy supporters 

By
Jonathan Bradley
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Republican congresswoman Yvette Herrell has announced she will be putting forth a bill to provide political asylum to “innocent Canadian protestors who are being persecuted by their own government.” 

The U.S. Congresswoman for New Mexico’s Second Congressional District said in a tweet on Saturday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on the Freedom Convoy is “not the action of a western democracy, but that of an authoritarian regime like Venezuela.” 

“Just as we provide asylum for political prisoners, we should do the same for truckers who have been subjected to violence, had their property confiscated and their bank accounts frozen by a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world,” said Herrell.

She added that Americans could not be silent as the Canadian government silences peaceful protesters. 

Canadian police from various forces have been cracking down on the protests since Friday, with only stragglers remaining on Sunday and Monday. Tensions were high as police employed violent tactics at times, including using riot gear and horses.

Rebel News reporter Alexa Lavoie was livestreaming the moment a police officer shot her in the leg with some sort of a gas canister from point-blank range. Lavoie was also hit with a police baton.

True North reporter Andrew Lawton was also pepper-sprayed. 

At a press conference on Sunday, Freedom Convoy co-organizer Tom Marazzo called for protestors to make a peace withdrawal from Ottawa.  

“There isn’t anything to be gained by being brutalized by police,” he said. 

Marazzo went on to say that this withdrawal was not a defeat but one battle in a larger war. 

Despite the Ottawa protests and border blockades having ended, Trudeau said on Monday that he would not revoke the Emergencies Act and would seek through a vote in Parliament to extend its implementation for at least four more weeks.

As of Monday afternoon, the vote was expected to pass, with NDP leader Jaghmeet Singh saying he would support Trudeau.

Trudeau will not cancel Emergencies Act despite protests being over 

By
Harrison Faulkner
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Despite all border crossings being cleared and the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Ottawa concluded, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated Monday that the government would look to extend its use of the Emergencies Act for at least another four weeks.

The vote will take place in the House of Commons on Monday at 8pm ET. 

Trudeau justified invoking the Act and urged other MPs to support its continued use.

“Invoking the Emergencies Act has been necessary. Law enforcement agencies relied on it to set up secured areas in downtown Ottawa and at border crossings,” said Trudeau.

“It prevented foreign money from continuing to fund illegal blockades, and it’s making sure our borders remain open. It has been the responsible thing to do.”

The vote is expected to pass. Although Trudeau has a minority government, he needs the support of only one other party to go ahead with the unprecedented measure.

The Conservative Party of Canada and the Bloc Quebecois have both indicated they will vote no, but Jagmeet Singh has said the NDP will support the government.

Singh announced in a media availability on Monday that the NDP would be “reluctantly” supporting the Emergencies Act in order to “protect democracy” and “protect workers” in the house today. 

Singh went on to say that the NDP will “pull their support and trigger a vote” on the Emergencies Act as soon as they feel it is “no longer necessary.”   

Trudeau had said those who vote no on the use of the Act were only doing so because they didn’t trust the government. 

“I can’t imagine that anyone who votes no (on the Emergencies Act) is doing anything other than indicating that they don’t trust the government to make incredibly momentous and important decisions at a very difficult time,” said Trudeau on Monday.

Trudeau is the first Prime Minister in Canadian history to invoke the Emergencies Act since it was created as a successor to the War Measures Act in 1988. 

Since the act was invoked, supporters of the freedom convoy have had their bank accounts frozen and police in Ottawa brutally cracked down on protesters over the weekend.

MPs began debating the vote on Saturday after the Liberals cancelled Friday’s session due to police action around Parliament Hill.

True North is following this developing story.

Recap of Day 29 of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy

By
Harrison Faulkner
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On Day 29 of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy, Ottawa law enforcement continued their crackdown on peaceful protesters, police harassed a small business for being open in the “red zone” and a journalist had her bank accounts frozen for the crime of telling the truth.

Ottawa Police continued to tweet updates of their ongoing efforts to end all protests in Canada’s capital. 

Police confirmed that 191 individuals had been arrested and 389 charges had been laid. 

Other gatherings around the city were also cleared out by police, including one at Coventry Road. 

True North and Rebel News journalists were denied access to Ottawa’s downtown for not having appropriate press credentials even though legacy media was granted access. 

A Rebel News journalist was blocked from going downtown today despite displaying a press pass and an Independent Press Gallery card. 

Furthermore, Ottawa Police stopped two Rebel journalists on the street and asked to see their IDs and hotel reservations. 

The officer told them that they should register with the city for “authorization.” 

A video posted to social media of an Albertan woman – “Doreen” – trying to access a coffee shop was widely shared by influencers in the United States. 

A police officer asks Doreen where she lives, then proceeds to shout at her to leave. The officer can then be seen swatting the woman’s phone out of her hand. 

David Anber – a criminal lawyer who has been providing legal services to protesters for many weeks in Ottawa – announced he has been retained by the woman in the video. 

Anber confirmed that he would be “putting together a professional standards complaint regarding officers Jones, Berube and McElravy of the OPS.”

In response to the shocking displays of violence shown by law enforcement this weekend, the Ontario Special Investigations Unit announced that it would be opening investigations into several incidents. 

These investigations include the “serious injury” of a woman in an interaction with a police horse and the discharging of “less-lethal” firearms at protesters.

This footage taken by a bystander this morning appears to show police manhandling a trucker who has surrendered peacefully. Other cops can be seen standing by and not intervening.  

On Saturday night, leaked Whatsapp group chats from RCMP officers were posted to social media by Rebel News, which appear to document multiple officers cheering on the violent treatment of protesters, including the video of an elderly First Nations woman being knocked down and trampled by riot horses.

“Just watched that horse video – that is awesome!!! We should practice that manoeuvre,” wrote one member by the name of “Marca.”

Another member under the name of Andrew Nixon wrote, “(t)ime for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground”

He added that they were going to make some “sweet OT (overtime)” that weekend, and urged his colleagues, “(d)on’t kick all of (the protesters) out until next weeks group gets our turn.”

In a video on Sunday, police were seen threatening small business owners in an attempt to enter Iconic Cafe in downtown Ottawa. It is unclear at this time why police were trying to gain access, but police can be heard telling the shop owner that they would break the glass if he didn’t open the door.

True North will update you on the status of Iconic Cafe in the coming days. 

Meanwhile, the financial measures the Liberals implemented along with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Emergencies Act continued to freeze the bank accounts of people involved with the Freedom Convoy, including at least one journalist.

Conservative MP Mark Strahl announced that one of his constituents – a single mom working a minimum-wage job – had had her bank account frozen for donating $50 to the truckers.

Andy Lee – a journalist well-known on Twitter under the handle Hannah_Bananaz – was also locked out of her financial banking services and accounts. 

Lee can’t use her credit cards to leave Ottawa. 

Debate over Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act continued in the House of Commons today, with a vote expected on Monday. 

Conservative MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre spoke out forcefully against Trudeau’s use of the Act and declared he will vote against it.

True North will continue to provide you with updates from Ottawa and the rest of the country as protests continue. 

The Givesendgo set up by the Truckers for Freedom Convoy organizers had reached USD $9,714,324 by the time this article was published.

Research shows more Canadian parents choosing independent schools

By
Joseph Bielmeier
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Enrolment in government-run public schools is on the decline in Canada while attendance at independent institutions is on the rise, according to new research.

The Fraser Institute’s Associate Director of Education Policy Paige MacPherson has found that enrolment in government-run public schools has been going down since the 2006/2007 school year.

Using data from the 2006/2007 school year to the 2019/2020 school year for all grades from K-12, MacPherson has shown that the number of children enrolled in government-run public schools has actually dropped more than a full percentage point – from 93% to 91.8%.

While the national rate of enrolment did not change significantly during this period, eight of the ten provinces saw declining attendance in government-run schools.

British Columbia had the lowest public school enrolment despite the fact that the provincial government had increased education spending. B.C.’s education spending also exceeded the national average, with a 15.4% spending increase from 2014/15 to 2018/19.

Quebec and Manitoba were the next two provinces with the lowest enrolment rate, while Newfoundland and Labrador had the highest.

On the flipside, MacPherson found that enrolment in independent schools had risen from 6.7% to 7.6% during the same time period. This comes despite the fact that independent schools put a greater financial burden on families who choose them.

The only provinces that showed a decrease in enrolment in independent schools were Alberta and Quebec.

B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec all offer some kind of government funding for independent schools. Nova Scotia offers the Tuition Support Program, which subsidizes a very limited amount.

This research is not the first to put the Canadian public education system under scrutiny. As previously reported by True North, the Association for Reformed Political Action has criticized provincial governments for not offering parents a diversity of approaches to education.

ARPA Canada Director of Law and Policy Andre Shutten notes that “(w)hile there might be a diversity of people within one big education system… there’s not a diversity in approaches to education, in different institutions providing education for our kids.”

Small improvements have come, however. 

For example, Alberta recently approved its first tuition-free public charter school focused on classical education, the first public non-denominational classical education program in Canada. 

Alberta’s education minister Adriana LaGrange stated, “we are proud to have a vibrant school system that supports a parent’s right to choose the type of education that is best for their child.”

The Calgary Classical Academy will start in the 2022/2023 school year and will offer classes from kindergarten to Grade 6.

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