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Canadian shenanigans in education

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    Mik
    wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 18:51 last edited by
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    https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/07/21/stephen-lecce-says-a-new-law-allowing-non-teachers-to-be-directors-of-education-will-fight-racism-heres-why-thats-nonsense.html?fbclid=IwAR0cT2-RJ6NEbpm2m_GeU0e9Nwrq3aMdyrWqXLyfdSYm4qZGgTug6dxFv8s

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      Rainman
      wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 01:49 last edited by
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      Too bad there is no comments section.
      It would be great to get the pro/cons from commenters, since the article was vague to an auslander.
      Maybe Ax could summarize?

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        Horace
        wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 01:51 last edited by
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        I feel that Ax rather callously ignores most of your pleas for help Rainman.

        Education is extremely important.

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          23 Jul 2020, 01:51

          I feel that Ax rather callously ignores most of your pleas for help Rainman.

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          Rainman
          wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 01:53 last edited by
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          @Horace said in Canadian shenanigans in education:

          I feel that Ax rather callously ignores most of your pleas for help Rainman.

          SILENCE heathen!
          My 'ol bud Ax will come through, you'll see.

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            Horace
            wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 01:54 last edited by
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            Hope is the last to die.

            Education is extremely important.

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              Renauda
              wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 03:54 last edited by Renauda
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              Omnibus bills are something we learned from US republocrats; put together legislation which is ostensibly about one thing but throw in a host of add ons that have little or nothing to do with the primary purpose of the legislation. Unfortunately increasingly common up here federally and provincially ever since the Harper era. In any case this particular stinker is brought to the people of Ontario by its Conservative government. Has no authority outside of Ontario. Education here is strictly a provincial jurisdiction, Federal gov't has no say or constitutional jurisdiction whatsoever. There is no Federal Dept. of Education.

              Elbows up!

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                Mik
                wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 13:27 last edited by
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                As it should be here.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on 23 Jul 2020, 17:07 last edited by
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                  It's kind of ironic when you considered how the Canadian government started.

                  "A fourth basic difference between the American and Canadian systems is in the type of federalism they embody. The American system was originally highly decentralized. The federal Congress was given a short list of specific powers; everything not mentioned in that list belonged to the states “or to the people” (that is, was not within the power of either Congress or any state legislature). “States’ rights” were fundamental. The Fathers of Confederation, gazing with horror at the American Civil War, decided that “states’ rights” were precisely what had caused it, and acted accordingly."

                  Here,”
                  said Sir John A. Macdonald,
                  “we have adopted a different system. We have expressly declared that all subjects of general interest not distinctly and exclusively conferred upon the local governments and legislatures shall be conferred upon the general government and legislature. We have thus avoided that great source of weakness that has been the disruption of the United States. We hereby strengthen the central Parliament, and make the Confederation one people and one government, instead of five peoples and five governments, with merely a point of authority connecting us to a limited and insufficient extent.”

                  https://lop.parl.ca/about/parliament/senatoreugeneforsey/book/chapter_4-e.html

                  I was only joking

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