“Parents should have the first and final say of what they want to teach their kids,” he said of sex ed. “The Liberals have refused their insight, feedback and expertise by not counselling with families on changes to Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum.

“An Ontario PC government will take this issue to parents — we will always stand for parents having the first say on what their children learn.”

For his part, Langton said he believes parents and their communities should decide the morality, ethics and belief structure taught to their children.

“There is some stuff in there that I don’t agree with,” he said of the curriculum.

Sarachman said sexual education should be the purview of the parents, noting the Trillium party is in favour of scrapping the Liberal curriculum.

“The young children are too young for some of the delicate issues that they’re talking about,” he said. “Sex education has to be approved by the parents, not by some politicians at Queen’s Park.

“It’s the parents who can best decide for the children what’s acceptable.”

Errygers said the Green party is a proponent of the current sexual education curriculum in Ontario, as well as integrating the public and separate school systems.

“I believe that having separate school systems is an affront to fairness and human rights,” she said, “especially in the multicultural country that we live in today.”

Meanwhile, as with many issues in the debate, Miller said although he has many opinions about the education system, he didn't want to bring that to the debate table.

“I don’t want to influence anybody who wants to get together to work on change,” he said. “Our party’s platform is all about change — legislative reform, electoral reform.”

Candidates were also asked other faith-based questions, including what they and their parties offer for people of faith, as well as their thoughts on conscience rights for public sector workers and if their governments would enact legislation requiring parental knowledge for abortion and sex or gender identification counselling for children under the age of 16.