Loyola High School v Quebec (Attorney General)

Constitutional law – Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Freedom of religion – Schools – Private Roman Catholic school requesting exemption from teaching secular Ethics and Religious Culture Course and proposing equivalent course from perspective of Catholic belief – Minister of Education refusing exemption on grounds proposal failing to meet statutory objectives of recognition of others, pursuit of common good, openness to human rights, and diversity – Court allowing school’s judicial review application of Minister’s refusal – Whether Minister’s decision proportionately balancing religious freedom with statutory objectives of mandatory program – Whether Minister’s insistence that proposed alternative program be entirely secular in approach reasonable given objectives of program – Whether decision infringing freedom of religion under Charter – Regulation respecting the application of the Act respecting private education, CQLR, c E-9.1, r 1, s 22; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11

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