Sex Ed Proposal On Hold

It's back to the drawing board for the Ontario government on its proposal to update the province's sex education curriculum.

After defending the new sex ed curriculum for two days, Premier Dalton McGuinty suddenly had a change of heart.

McGuinty says it's important to educate elementary kids about sex, but adds the government clearly didn't do a good enough job of consulting parents on the ideas.

He says the Liberal government should have taken time to inform parents about the changes it had in mind.


The opposition parties are accusing McGuinty of making policy on the fly and bowing to pressure from church groups.

Under the changes McGuinty has withdrawn, Grade 1 kids were to be taught to identify genitalia using the correct words, while Grade 3 students would have been taught about same-sex families.