Chomsky on “Miseducation”!

Teachers today are given the responsibility to teach children to be critical thinkers. What happens when we teach our children to question the sacred, the hegemonic legitimizers and the system that teaches us to read and write.

Living in a “Free and Democractic society,” when we question long standing institutions as becoming dead dogmas we run the risk of becoming outcast and socially unacceptable behaviour coming from the powers at be who believe themselves to be the holders or defenders of our freedom.

Unfortunately, holding freedom to account one that all can benefit we need critical thinkers to raise the alarm so that we can adjust and adapt before it is too late.

Canadian Federalism seems to be working at the moment; however, it seems that it needs to be tweaked so that we do not loose any more fundamental freedom as it seems are being curtailed at any given moment.

The passing of Bill C-09 was touted as a Bill-That may down a slippery slope to curtail a religious leader from using some texts that seem to be hateful. I’m sure that we have nothing to worry about yet as long as your not using text to question to government at hand.

How can we save our federal system in Canada?

1. Open the system include more Western Canadian Voices.
2. Revisit Meech-Lake so that we get a Quebec Signature on the Constitution to make this nation whole.
3. test proportional representation provincially before we make it our full blown system federally.
4. tinker with equalization and allow provinces to manage more of their internal profits loosening the federation but have high national standards which must be met.
5. Federal Health Care system which does not limit our freedom of mobility but does allow provinces to cede who can come to their province in the end more of a security provision rather than cultural control.

In the end, balancing our freedom with the economic capacity to realize these freedoms has always been the domain to critical thinkers who can foresee the problems of not adapting making the right slow changes so that the country does not shake to the point of collapse.

Proportional Representation is the necessary system needed for Canada to enact the slow change that the majority of Canada will have a voice so far that the rigidity of the first past the post system cannot handle the complexities of our federation.