TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader now says it was a mistake to pledge to scrap the Liberal government’s sex-ed curriculum if his party wins the 2018 election. In an op-ed published by the Toronto Star, Brown writes that the Scarborough-Rouge River campaign letter went “too far” in saying he would scrap the curriculum because he will not. I do not want people voting in Scarborough-Rouge River thinking I will scrap sex education. I will not.”Brown’s spokeswoman tweeted Friday that the letter was not a new announcement. During the party’s leadership race last year, Brown spoke at a rally protesting the sex-ed curriculum, saying, “Teachers should teach facts about sex education, not values,” without identifying what parts of the curriculum he felt were teaching values.

Source: National Post August 29, 2016 22:41 UTC