A strong and clear majority of Canadians favour governments’ providing tax relief to parents who send their children to independent schools. Cutting across every Canadian region, support for tax relief secures almost twice as much support as opposition to it, as reflected in responses to the following question:

As you know, all parents pay taxes in support of government-managed schools and in some cases of separate Catholic schools whether they send their children to a government-managed school or an independent school. In your view, should parents with children in independent schools [no rotation]

• have to pay the full cost of independent schooling without any tax relief (33%)
  
• get some tax relief to help them with tuition fees (47%), or
  
• get complete tax relief to cover their tuition fees (13%; unprompted DNK 8%?
  

On average, those supporting some degree of tax relief would like such tax relief to equal 44% of the cost of sending children to such independent schools.

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