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BY LifeSiteNews.com By Terry VanderheydenCORNWALL, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Eastern Ontario public school board denied “persistent” requests by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s campaign team to make a stop at one of their high schools, while the Catholic board welcomed the pro-abortion, pro-gay “marriage” PM with open arms, as reported by LifeSiteNews.com Friday: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120207.html.Upper Canada District School Board said it “politely declined” Martin’s request to visit Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School Thursday; Martin instead visited Cornwall’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School, where he also gave a live televised nationwide address through CBC Newsworld. While the public board sensibly has a firm policy expressly banning any politically partisan event from its schools, the Catholic board had no problem granting Martin, a dissident Catholic, a perfect photo op with school children whooping wildly, and waving flags for the Leader of the Liberal Party.ÂThe public board said that had Martin requested a visit outside of his campaign, he would have been welcome. On the other hand, because Martin is Prime Minister, the Catholic board felt it was a “chance of a lifetime” for schoolchildren to meet a world leader. The Catholic board said it would not, however, allow a visit from Steven Harper or Jack Layton because they are not world leaders.Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario chairman Ron Eamer denied that the Prime Minister’s visit was simply a publicity-seeking campaign stunt. Eamer justified his decision to accept the PM but not allow Layton or Harper: “Whichever one of them might become prime minister, we’d more than welcome them as prime minister,” he said, according to a Brockville Recorder and Times report.Commenting Friday, Mary Ellen Douglas, President of Campaign Life Coalition Ontario told LifeSiteNews.com, “It’s bad enough that the school would allow a partisan political campaign stop at their instruction. However, a Catholic school accepting a visit from a pro-abortion politician who just forced same-sex ‘marriage’ on the country is beyond the pale.”Local bishop Paul-André Durocher, asked by LifeSiteNews.com about his impression of the school’s allowance of Martin in light of a widely reported USCCB document that warned that pro-abortion politicians should not be honoured by the Catholic community and Catholic institutions, responded, “I’m not aware of that document.”To RESPECTFULLY express concerns:Most Rev. Paul-André Durocher admin@alexandria-cornwall.ca  220, ch. Montréal Rd., C.P. / Box 1388,   Cornwall ON K6H 5V4   Telephone / Téléphone (613) 933-1138; Fax / Télécopieur (613) 937-4931The Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario Eastern Region Education Centre 835 Campbell Street Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7B7 Telephone: (613) 933-1720 Toll-free: 1-800-267-7136 Fax: (613) 933-7966 (613) 258-7757 Fax: (613) 258-5067 E-Mail: ann.perron@cdsbeo.on.ca http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/public-school-board-rejects-prime-ministers-campaign-stop-while-catholic-bo/

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