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Toronto District School Board
Ward 08, Eglinton - Lawrence and Toronto - St. Paul's
Number to Elect: 1

		incumbent
	Neel Venugopal	Shelley Laskin	Cornelius Herelle	Samantha Kirsh

CLC Rating	Pro-parental rights	Not supportable	Position is unknown	Position is unknown

RATING COMMENTS:	Neel gave perfect answers to CLC's 2022 public school tru... <More> See Full Profile	Voted against a motion that sought to protect children fr... <More> See Full Profile	Candidate has not responded to CLC's 2022 election survey... <More> See Full Profile	CLC's 2022 Ontario Municipal elections questionnaire has ... <More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER
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1. Do you agree that parents, not the state, have the inherent right of primacy in education of children?	Yes	refused to answer	no response	survey not sent
2. Will you defend the inherent right of parents to be notified in advance regarding any lesson, speaker or presentation involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	Yes	refused to answer	no response	survey not sent
3. Do you agree that parents should have the right to withdraw their children from classroom lessons or presentations involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	Yes	refused to answer	no response	survey not sent
4. Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)?
5. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer)
6. Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers' money in Nova Scotia?
7. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion?
8. Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality?
9. Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs?
10. Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote “palliative care”, the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? *Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person’s consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.

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	Nathalie Kwan	Dewitt Lee	John Vassal

CLC Rating	Position is unknown	Position is unknown	Position is unknown

RATING COMMENTS:	CLC's 2022 Ontario Municipal elections questionnaire has ... <More> See Full Profile	Candidate has not responded to CLC's 2022 election survey... <More> See Full Profile	Candidate has not responded to CLC's 2022 election survey... <More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER
	See Full Profile	See Full Profile	See Full Profile
1. Do you agree that parents, not the state, have the inherent right of primacy in education of children?	survey not sent	no response	no response
2. Will you defend the inherent right of parents to be notified in advance regarding any lesson, speaker or presentation involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	survey not sent	no response	no response
3. Do you agree that parents should have the right to withdraw their children from classroom lessons or presentations involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	survey not sent	no response	no response
4. Do you acknowledge that human life begins at conception (fertilization)?
5. Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion? (note: a surgical or medical intervention, designed to prevent the death of the mother but but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion. e.g. in cases of tubal pregnancy or cervical cancer)
6. Will you support measures to stop funding abortions with taxpayers' money in Nova Scotia?
7. Do you agree women have the right to be thoroughly informed about the serious health consequences of abortion, the development of the child in the womb and the alternatives to abortion?
8. Will you protect the rights of parents to educate their children according to their faith in matters of moral principles and beliefs concerning abortion, contraception and homosexuality?
9. Will you support legislation to protect the right of health care workers who refuse to participate in procedures which are in violation of their religious or conscientious beliefs?
10. Will you oppose euthanasia and instead support measures to promote “palliative care”, the purpose of which is to alleviate pain, and enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and those with disabilities? *Euthanasia is the direct and intentional killing of a person by action or omission, with or without that person’s consent, for what people mistakenly believe are compassionate reasons.

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