As I've mused about enough on this blog, the "libertarian" impulse exists in Canada. Personally, I'm ready to try something else. The Conservatives, Liberals and NDP bore me now. And people who constantly complain about the conservatives as being "evil" while presenting no rational or proper proof (no the fucking long-form registry is not an example), are equally boring.
Not sure if this is the answer though.They're calling it a Canadian Tea Party. It's coming from the right. Yeah, British loyalists still exist in Canada but they're too busy reminiscing about the good ole days of the Empire when Canada was in its proper colonial place.
Aside from the fact Canada has zero connections to the Boston Tea Party, we'd be wise to not copy the American model outright and come up with our own name, no? Is it too much to ask?
I came up with a name a while ago when I suggested a similar idea - I can't remember which post that was in. So basically it's like I never said it. How about "Biscuit and Tea Time" since we didn't revolt to get our nation? We sat politely and let it all be created as a business write-off and then had tea.
How about we shed any connections to Europe once and for all (going back to our "roots" isn't the answer and quite frankly I'd rather move forward) and create a uniquely Canadian party?
Meh. More organizations I can't join.
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In an earlier post I mentioned how useless CV's are. Of course, you need to see a person's track record. I was taking a macro view in that I don't understand why these things have to be "formal" and "formatted." The web is filled with "how to write a resume" or "how to succeed in an interview" crap. Bunch of sheep.
I'd rather see no formality that way we have a better chance at gaining glimpses and insights into a person's personality and character. Why shouldn't it be on "yellow" paper? Or in art-deco font? I personally would enjoy it.
Keep the dry resumes for government, banking, engineering and accounting jobs. Since, generally speaking, these jobs demand a certain stoic flair.
Other than that, if you're a dynamic culture, why insist on playing by standard rules?
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Which made me think about Quebec's awful education system. What does Charest do to try and shake things up? He moves out one incompetent with no background in education (Courchesne) and swings in a unilingual minister with, well, no education background. She'll likely maintain Quebec's proud record of messing up education.
If they continue on this pace, maybe the only thing they should focus on is ensuring a public education service is maintained but with substantial reduction of power to design and implement education ideas and strategies.
On both the French and English side teachers are at their wits end with the constant changes and lack of resources to meet the impractical whims of the government.
When you have a situation where the government fails to deliver school books on time (on the English side) you know something is seriously and drastically wrong. We don't need to critically think this sort of stuff. Kid starts school, no books = problem.
How wild a society would we have if private schools were truly private each with its own set of principles, methods and curriculum? We'd truly possess a free-thinking and dynamic society. Instead, as it stands, everyone has to follow a dictated curriculum. You need propaganda to keep the system going, right?
Make it all free. Suddenly the state isn't so scary.
Or at the very least, if this is impractical wishing thinking on my part, hire ministers who, you know, happen to be teachers.
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