Yes, Lets be "Fair" by all means.
17/09/07 01:54 PM
The Ontario
Schools Question, and the hangover to come.
I read Mr. Tory’s words in defense of his proposal to extend public funding education to religions other then those codified in the BNA act that created Canada and I can’t help but hold my breath in eager anticipation.
Mr. Tory said this week that it was just too hard to look into the eyes of Hindu/Jewish/Muslim parents and not agree with them that it is just not “fair” that Catholics get their own schools and Hindus, Muslims, Jews and a host of fundamentalist Christian organisations don’t get the same treatment. He had to “do something” about it and his passion for this cause knows no bounds.
Well, it really does, and even though he says the bounds are around $500 million dollars I think that his typical political mathematics is way off the mark. All of the aforementioned groups and untold others are going to expect marble archways, fleets of buses, gleaming gymnasiums and ultra-modern designed and equipped schools built wherever they live. They won’t put up with rented space and car-pooling cause that’s not what those Catholics have. You have to be fair!
Notwithstanding that Mr. Tory is taking a page out of the Dion phrasebook by making “Fair”ness a major plank in his platform, I do believe that the real challenges are yet to come. They are sitting in the weeds, injunctions and subpoenas in hand just waiting for the precedent to be set.
Next up is, " I want my kids taught in (pick one or make up your own), Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Hebrew, Italian, or Maltese at their own school where they can be with others of their own kind. After all, that is what the FRENCH kids get and we want to be “Fair” don’t we".
There are currently 12 French Language school boards in Ontario, 6 French language school authorities, and they administer 397 schools just full of French speaking kids.
Unlike with the publicly funded Catholic Schools, to which anyone can and do go in large numbers, even if they are not Catholic, if you aren’t French don’t bother showing up at these 397 doors. No way.
Do you think Mr. Tory has thought about how his Fairness Doctrine will cope with all of the creative ways that the cultural isolationists will develop to suck public money out of any government he might lead?
I don’t, not for a minute. I don't believe that he is thinking past tomorrow's poll numbers and such nearsightedness indicates poor judgement and a lack of planning. Perhaps Mr. Tory might have benefitted from a few years of study with the Jesuits.
Twits!
I read Mr. Tory’s words in defense of his proposal to extend public funding education to religions other then those codified in the BNA act that created Canada and I can’t help but hold my breath in eager anticipation.
Mr. Tory said this week that it was just too hard to look into the eyes of Hindu/Jewish/Muslim parents and not agree with them that it is just not “fair” that Catholics get their own schools and Hindus, Muslims, Jews and a host of fundamentalist Christian organisations don’t get the same treatment. He had to “do something” about it and his passion for this cause knows no bounds.
Well, it really does, and even though he says the bounds are around $500 million dollars I think that his typical political mathematics is way off the mark. All of the aforementioned groups and untold others are going to expect marble archways, fleets of buses, gleaming gymnasiums and ultra-modern designed and equipped schools built wherever they live. They won’t put up with rented space and car-pooling cause that’s not what those Catholics have. You have to be fair!
Notwithstanding that Mr. Tory is taking a page out of the Dion phrasebook by making “Fair”ness a major plank in his platform, I do believe that the real challenges are yet to come. They are sitting in the weeds, injunctions and subpoenas in hand just waiting for the precedent to be set.
Next up is, " I want my kids taught in (pick one or make up your own), Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Hebrew, Italian, or Maltese at their own school where they can be with others of their own kind. After all, that is what the FRENCH kids get and we want to be “Fair” don’t we".
There are currently 12 French Language school boards in Ontario, 6 French language school authorities, and they administer 397 schools just full of French speaking kids.
Unlike with the publicly funded Catholic Schools, to which anyone can and do go in large numbers, even if they are not Catholic, if you aren’t French don’t bother showing up at these 397 doors. No way.
Do you think Mr. Tory has thought about how his Fairness Doctrine will cope with all of the creative ways that the cultural isolationists will develop to suck public money out of any government he might lead?
I don’t, not for a minute. I don't believe that he is thinking past tomorrow's poll numbers and such nearsightedness indicates poor judgement and a lack of planning. Perhaps Mr. Tory might have benefitted from a few years of study with the Jesuits.
Twits!
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