Floundering under a ‘yoke of wokeism’
Re: News flash — School boards to celebrate the 3 Rs. Rex Murphy, April 1
It is amazing that this country continues to operate despite the yoke of wokeism it carries in almost every field of endeavour.
Rex Murphy’s April Fools parody of celebrating one day of “real” school amidst the 190 during which students have to endure a relentless social justice curriculum generated by woke administrators and ministry bureaucrats highlighted the problem. The teachers are not the cancer. They want to teach the 3Rs in the few minutes left in each day after the “must-teach” agenda of colonialism, systemic racism, gender studies etc.
Just like the 10 months I just waited for a hip replacement was not the fault of the wonderful professionals who treated me once they were able to get to me. The lack of staff and beds is not their fault but the fault of the bureaucrats and politicians who run the ministries of health across the nation.
The oil workers and lumbermen haven’t crippled our natural resource industries, just as the frontline cops don’t give creampuff bail and jail treatment to murderers and rapists. This is the bailiwick of people in robes and who “do lunch.”
This maxim applies as readily to the military, immigration and border security, Indigenous affairs, and any other major component of our society. If Canada is broken it is because of a complete and utter failure of the political, executive and administrative “leadership” running the country.
Larry Baswick, Stratford, Ont.
‘Same old, Same old’: Still waiting for action on autism
Re: Liberals must create national autism framework after Tory bill receives royal assent. Cindy Tran, March 30
Same old, same old. Once we had a strategy and now we are to have a framework. The only thing we continue to lack is action. Twenty-three years ago our courts found that Canadians living with autism spectrum disorder needed medically necessary treatment and that science-based, proven effective applied behavioural analysis or intensive behavioural intervention was without competing therapies. This remains true to this day.
In May 2016 delegates to the Liberals party’s national convention, held in Winnipeg, overwhelmingly passed a “priority health-care policy resolution” calling upon the Government of Canada to fully fund this medically necessary treatment for some of our country’s most vulnerable people. To date, the Trudeau Liberal cabinet and parliamentary caucus studiously ignore their own party’s policy resolution.
The latest legislation provides Canada’s health minister with 18 months in which to establish a research network and fund cross-country awareness campaigns. This is as offensive as it is useless.
David Marley, Co-founder and director, Medicare for Autism Now! Society, West Vancouver
Don’t forget the heroes of the Portapique massacre
Re: N.S. mass shooting inquiry lays blame on RCMP, Ryan Tumilty, March 29
With all the discussion of how the police could have responded better to the April 2020 mass shootings in Portapique, N.S., one hopes that the heroism that took place over those two horrific days will not be forgotten.
One officer lost her life trying to apprehend the suspect; others risked their lives in the pursuit. The perpetrator of that carefully planned killing spree had a perfect disguise, perfect mobility and deadly weapons. To discover and terminate the killer in the course of his 13-hour rampage was no mean feat.
Patrick McKitrick, Burnaby, B.C.
‘Canada should be facilitating the LNG industry’
Re: For want of a pipeline: Canadian LNG should power low-carbon revolution, report says. James McCarten, April 2
As a newly minted petroleum engineer, I learned long ago that LNG produces 40 per cent less carbon dioxide (CO2) than coal and 30 per cent less than oil, and none of the particulates. It is a most powerful weapon in the reduction of CO2 production in the transition from oil and coal to non-emitting energy sources. The time from when I first learned this to now, when there is finally some public awareness of these facts, has been four decades, which is an embarrassment in a country rich with STEM knowledge. After several years of quashing LNG infrastructure, Canada should now be facilitating the LNG industry.
John P.A. Budreski, Vancouver
The Trudeau Liberals’ real agenda
Re: The Liberal climate change excuse to control the economy. Carson Jerema, March 29
Carson Jerema aptly describes the real agenda of the Liberals. Currying favour with the monied billionaires who have been promoting the climate change agenda is their priority. They have no concern for the average person or they would not blatantly have carbon tax agendas that hurt the majority of people because of increased food costs. Killing business opportunities would not be permitted.
This is a more insidious movement leaning in the direction of Marxism, which condones the power of the few over the “masses.”
Anne Robinson, Toronto
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