Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has invoked the Notwithstanding Clause to temporarily over-ride a Saskatchewan Court ruling that said that government should not be paying for non-catholic students to attend a Catholic school.

St Michaels school is Weyburn's Catholic School.

Non-Catholic students attend St. Michaels with no extra cost to them. It has been reported that had the court ruling taken effect, Non-Catholic families would have to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $12,000 per child or for them to move schools.

Teresa Sandeski, Mother of Josiah, who goes to St. Michaels and is a non-catholic student.

"We wanted him to have a basic grounding in the Christian belief. He does attend a different church but he wanted to have the teaching of the Gospel and they have a little bit of that in their academic surroundings there," said Sandeski.

Sandeski is relieved that Josiah can continue his education at St. Michaels School and feels that it is not right for someone who is not Catholic to be stopped from going to school based on what they do or do not believe.

"We have the laws of freedom of speech, we should have freedom of religion," she added.

It is also the relief of the Saskatchewan Catholic School Board that the ruling can be suspended to take effect for five years.

"We're grateful to the Government of Saskatchewan for confirming its commitment to invoke the notwithstanding clause," explained Tom Fortosky

"The Government wants to ensure parents can still choose to send their children to fully funded Catholic schools in our province. The use of the notwithstanding clause puts a stay to the decision for five years."

After the initial five years, the provincial government is able to invoke the notwithstanding clause for another five years.