XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 05/06/2011 4:07 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:30:12 -0600, Canuck57 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 03/06/2011 10:43 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:06:40 -0600, Canuck57 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 31/05/2011 8:57 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   >>>>> On Tue, 31 May 2011 06:21:04 -0700, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> The teachers work at a school on the Waterhen Lake First Nation,   
   >>>>>> near Meadow Lake, about 300 kilometres north of Saskatoon.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Some of them live in accommodations supplied by the reserve and pay   
   >>>>>> $250 per month in rent, a rate that is below market level for   
   >>>>>> housing in nearby communities such as Meadow Lake.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> That's no benefit, that's a hardship.  And after the debacle with   
   >>>>> those Residential Schools, there's no question that it's the GoC's   
   >>>>> responsibility to deliver education to people *in situ*.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Dhu   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Not at all hardship, I am sure the salary is healthy.   
   >>>>   
   >>> $alary only goes so far when it comes to no running water and outhouses   
   >>> in 50 below.   
   >>   
   >> Agreed, just like every taxpayer slave in the country knows.   
   >>   
   >> But your point?  If the reserve is her primary residence, then it is   
   >> subsidized.  There isn't a reserve in Canada that isn't subsidized that   
   >> I am aware of.  So pay up.   
   >   
   > They're subsidized under a modality that keeps them "wards of the State",   
   > which amounts to just enough charity that they can't afford to do anything.   
   > So life out on a lot of the deep-bush reserves and settlements is pretty   
   > grim and it amounts to real hardship for folk from there, let alone someone   
   > brought in to teach.   
      
   Funny, per capita they get more than retirees, disabled and many vets.   
      
   But see what your coming from, a fostered culture of perpetual   
   dysfunction.  No one is forcing them to live in the remote areas.   
      
   >> As a big fat liberal sized government teaching over paid teacher, they   
   >> have to realize big government has to be paid for.  Otherwise they are   
   >> just irrational mooches and leaches.   
   >>   
   >> The sad fact in Canada is we don't really teach civics, taxation and   
   >> economics, we have K12 brainwashing, big liberal sized government is   
   >   
   > I'd teach people Maths, Language(s), Science and Arts.  That's called   
   > a "Liberal" education.  Practicum such as taxation and "economics"   
   > should be left to the private interests concerned with them.  Similarly   
   > for "civics", which sounds to me a lot like State Religion despite   
   > all its seeming good intent.   
      
   Economics as in personal economics should be taught to everyone.   
      
   Agreed though in that modern teaching of civics is a religion.   
      
   Is Louis Riel a villain for freedom fighter is a good example.   
      
      
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