A further canard is that such teaching gives children ideas that they would not otherwise have and that it encourages them in promiscuity.
It is a canard that has been put to bed time and again.
I hope that that canard will not spread.
We also had the usual canard about morale being bad.
That canard should be dismissed for what it is.
Therefore, that gets another canard out of the way.
However, he cannot get away, once again, with that canard.
It would suit his doctrinaire book to put across that canard.