I couldn't agree more with the columnist on this.
It's long past time for an Ontario leader to be brave enough to take on this sacred cow of a separate system just for Catholics and unite our public education systems to end this systemic discrimination based on religion. No faith should have special rights in modern Ontario.
In 2007, the public made clear in that provincial election (with the crushing defeat of John Tory's PCs who advocated that year expanding funding to all religions) they certainly don't want to further silo off our public education system to create even more religious public schools.
Instead, the solution to this discrimination is clear: one system for all.