Richard Dawkins is in Australia to attend the Atheist Convention and to also promote his books.  Interviews by Australians are different to those by the British or the Americans so Dawkins talks about different things. The interview by George Negus of the Australian SBS Television network "feeds" Dawkins some good questions and George seems to be either neutral or at least not strongly religious.

There are two versions available - this is the longer one at about 15 minutes with no introduction. Hosted on Cobourg Atheist.

Quebec is not only Canadian and French and has strong Catholic roots, it is also the most secular province.  In some respects they lead Canada in their policies on keeping religion separate from the “state”.  Recently they banned an immigrant woman wearing a burqa from classes teaching French and now they are banning Government subsidized day-care centres from teaching religion. Twenty centres are affected.

On Wednesday, March 10, Quebec Family Minister Tony Tomassi said that “religious education will no longer be tolerated in government-subsidized daycares”.  Annie Turcot, spokesperson for a coalition of publicly funded daycares on the island of Montreal said "The mission of [early-childhood education centres] is really to help families integrate into Quebec culture.”   And the unspoken thought is that integration does not mean perpetuating the religions and cultures (like Islam) that they bring with them.

When a child is born, he/she comes with genes that determine many things - including race, appearance, personality, intelligence, sexual orientation and more.  But children are not born with knowledge, beliefs, culture or religion.  These come primarily from their parents and also from others they come in contact with.  If their parents are smart, they will want to teach their children moral values such as the golden rule as well as tolerance and respect for the beliefs of others.  They will usually want to also teach their culture and beliefs which might include a religion.  It's unrealistic to expect parents to teach their children anything contrary to their beliefs.  But if the parents' beliefs include tolerance and respect for others, they will teach that the beliefs and religion are "theirs" but that other people have other cultures and religions which must be respected.   Lastly, they will teach their children to use their reason to decide about anything new they may come across.