The issue for the christofascists isn’t that children are being indoctrinated in school. The issue is the deprogramming of the indoctrination to fear, hate, intolerance, and self-loathing that they get at home from their parents and at church from christofascist leaders.
Schools don’t make people more liberal, exposure to reality makes people more liberal.
I think the downvotes come from ignoring the fact that some of the OLP’s members are really red Tories, and some of its policies have been decidedly not left. For example the years of wage growth freezes in the public sector, the privatization of various public assets to balance budgets. In other words the OLP can’t be chucked to the left wholesale. It’s probably lefty overall today but the right elements within it have done a lot of damage to a lot of Ontarians’ lives. I am by no means saying that the OLP is the same as the OPC. But the OLP is not the same as the NDP. I’m saying this as a strategic voter who would vote either depending on who ABC is electable in my riding. I’m also not saying that the OLP and NDP banding together won’t be amazing for us. What I’m saying is that there are non-insignificant differences that have prevented this from happening. It would take a lot for a democratic socialist to get in bed with someone who’s fought unions tooth and nail to balance a budget, a neoliberal economic move.
I’d rather see two center-right and left groups debating policy rather than needing to entertain the far right policies that many conservatives are fine to be in bed with.