Education Reform: The Creation of My Politically Informed Clone Army

We find ourselves in the midst of yet another political event. I use the term event because this crusade for support is a little different than an election campaign. Instead of frolicking about the country seeking out votes in late painted Liberal planes, Green Party trains, and Conservative Party Hummers, the party representatives are using these vehicles to seek out support for their side of the Coalition quarrel.

What seems to be forgotten in the news coverage of these events is that the Canadian population does not really seem to grasp the whole situation. Most still believe they actually elect the party to lead the country and not their local representative. So try telling them about how Conservatives lost confidence in the House or the options of the Governor General or the likelihood of successful governance by a coalition by illustrating the successes of those in other nations. Like it or not in Canada a trend of minority governments had begun do to the rise of other parties and vote splitting so people should get used to this sort of thing happening as it is common place in numerous representative democracies. I will not try to explain any of these problems in this article as we have already done so in others: refer to “Star Wars: The Coalition Strikes Back” for a dim-witted reasonable breakdown.

My case here is to be laid out in favour of education reform. This not only applies to Ontario, as some of you who retain membership in my growing Facebook movement (21 fanatical folks and soaring like a phoenix from the ashes as I type), but to Canada in its entirety. I present you with a letter that I sent to the Ontario Minister of Education, Kathleen Wynne.
“I would like to speak to the Minister of Education regarding the implementation of a more thorough study of politics into the curriculum. Students should be more informed about the basic tasks of the government and other political entities. This would require a 3 pronged approach.
1) Political Science should be a teachable subject acceptable to enter into teachers college
2) Classes should be created starting in the primary schools and further advanced in the high schools in the areas of: municipal governance, provincial governance, federal governance, and current issues both domestic and international
3) Students should be required to participate in mandatory volunteer working totalling an additional 20 hours (10 for a political party or Elections Canada and 10 for a non-profit organization). This would expose the youth the political system and defeat the sense of futility felt by many in the democratic system.”

I will not trick anyone into believing that this change will happen over night or perhaps even over the course of a few years, however, I did gain some hope when a friend of mine sent me an invitation to his Facebook group advocating the implementation of biodegradable cups at Tim Hortons. This group currently has 10, 251 members, a sign to me that perhaps people do care enough about issues to get something done. Then there is the Facebook driven rise up of the youth against Dalton McGuinty’s new laws (Dalton by the way has a strong following of 636 “fans” on his Facebook group). So perhaps there is hope after all. Like Pierre Trudea pining over every word he wrote in Cite Libre, yearning for transformation, I will languish over the medium of this generation. I see no way that with an average daily readership of 4 revolutionaries this Blog will not produce results similar, if not superior to the Quiet Revolution.



Did I just say nationalize the oil fields… only Rene Levesque can be sure of that.

C.