{"id":464,"date":"2006-08-07T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=464"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:37:22","slug":"monday-august-7-2006-things-we-can-do-to-ensure-canadas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Monday, August 7, 2006 \u2014 Things We Can Do to Ensure Canada\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do every\u00adthing pos\u00adsi\u00adble to make it cheap and easy for any\u00adone under 25 to trav\u00adel in Cana\u00adda. Our present facil\u00adi\u00adties for back\u00adpack\u00aders and stu\u00addent trav\u00adel\u00aders are woe\u00adful\u00adly inad\u00ade\u00adquate. Every young Kore\u00adan, Eston\u00adian, or Peru\u00advian who back\u00adpacks across Cana\u00adda at the age of 18, and has a good expe\u00adri\u00adence, is a future foun\u00adtain\u00adhead of invest\u00adment, trade, pub\u00adlic\u00adi\u00adty and good\u00adwill for this coun\u00adtry. This is bread cast upon the waters that will come back five-fold after many days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Equip a large num\u00adber of high schools across the coun\u00adtry to func\u00adtion as youth trav\u00adel hos\u00adtels in the sum\u00admer hol\u00adi\u00addays. The tech\u00adniques for oper\u00adat\u00ading trav\u00adel hos\u00adtels are well estab\u00adlished. It should be made pos\u00adsi\u00adble for any high school, uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, or com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty col\u00adlege stu\u00addent to stay overnight at a min\u00adi\u00admal charge in any such hos\u00adtel, any\u00adwhere in the coun\u00adtry. Addi\u00adtion\u00adal trav\u00adel hos\u00adtels should be estab\u00adlished in native reserves, nation\u00adal parks, and in remote wilder\u00adness areas. Hope\u00adful\u00adly, the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion will actu\u00adal\u00adly know our coun\u00adtry, and out\u00adgrow the pet\u00adty region\u00adal squab\u00adbling that embar\u00adrass\u00ades us before the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make it extreme\u00adly easy for any stu\u00addent to spend a school term in any oth\u00ader city in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make it extreme\u00adly easy for any stu\u00addent to sub\u00adsti\u00adtute a semes\u00adter of world trav\u00adel for any semes\u00adter in the last two years of high school. Cre\u00adate funds (pub\u00adlic or pri\u00advate) for loans and grants for world trav\u00adel award\u00aded for scholas\u00adtic achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Build a fund and suit\u00adable pro\u00adgrams so that thou\u00adsands of high-school stu\u00addents from for\u00adeign coun\u00adtries can take the last two years of high school in Cana\u00adda. Poor and trou\u00adbled coun\u00adtries should be tar\u00adget\u00aded. Trans\u00adporta\u00adtion, hous\u00ading and expens\u00ades should be includ\u00aded. This does not need to be a gov\u00adern\u00adment pro\u00adgram \u2014 the mon\u00adey involved is well with\u00adin the capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties of pri\u00advate foun\u00adda\u00adtions. The stu\u00addents should be select\u00aded on the basis of grades and intel\u00adli\u00adgence, with in situ over\u00adsee\u00ading to make sure that it is not abused by priv\u00adi\u00adleged elites in the coun\u00adtries of ori\u00adgin. The aim should be to pro\u00advide an in-depth expe\u00adri\u00adence of Cana\u00addi\u00adan soci\u00adety. Such a pro\u00adgram will do more good than a hun\u00addred times its cost in for\u00adeign aid (which usu\u00adal\u00adly does lit\u00adtle more than wind up in the num\u00adbered Swiss bank accounts of dic\u00adta\u00adtors and thugs). And, in the long run, it will ben\u00ade\u00adfit us as much as it ben\u00ade\u00adfits its recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make a vis\u00adit to the high arc\u00adtic, or a major expe\u00adri\u00adence of wilder\u00adness, a basic com\u00adpo\u00adnent of edu\u00adca\u00adtion, expect\u00aded of every\u00adone who attends high school. Canada\u2019s Native her\u00aditage should play a larg\u00ader role in edu\u00adca\u00adtion. The vast\u00adness of the land, and the ancient tra\u00addi\u00adtions of liv\u00ading with and under\u00adstand\u00ading nature, are the core themes of our nation. Every\u00adone should have access to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Break the child\u00adhood \u201ccouch pota\u00adto\u201d syn\u00addrome. Do every\u00adthing pos\u00adsi\u00adble to ensure that our next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion knows some\u00adthing more than how to type on a key\u00adboard or play video games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make lan\u00adguage instruc\u00adtion a major aim of Cana\u00addi\u00adan edu\u00adca\u00adtion. It should be expect\u00aded and nor\u00admal for any Cana\u00addi\u00adan to emerge from high school with some flu\u00aden\u00adcy in at least four lan\u00adguages: Eng\u00adlish, French, a for\u00adeign lan\u00adguage, and a native Cana\u00addi\u00adan lan\u00adguage (such as Cree or Inuk\u00adti\u00adtut). Pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy in five or six lan\u00adguages should be rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly com\u00admon. The max\u00adi\u00admum vari\u00adety of for\u00adeign lan\u00adguages should be sought after, so that we can devel\u00adop pools of pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy in any lan\u00adguage that is use\u00adful in inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal trade, diplo\u00adma\u00adcy, or cul\u00adture. We should attempt to make the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of Cana\u00addi\u00adans renowned in the world for cos\u00admopoli\u00adtan sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion. Lan\u00adguages were the core of Clas\u00adsi\u00adcal Edu\u00adca\u00adtion, which focused on the dis\u00adci\u00adpline of the mind and the prepa\u00adra\u00adtion for indi\u00advid\u00adual growth. Much has been lost by sub\u00adsti\u00adtut\u00ading an edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal sys\u00adtem that com\u00adbines equal parts of job train\u00ading and baby-sit\u00adting, and views stu\u00addents as work\u00ader-ter\u00admites or commodities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dou\u00adble the size of our cur\u00adrent library sys\u00adtem. Extend library hours and ser\u00advices. Improve libraries in remote communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Improve sci\u00adence edu\u00adca\u00adtion. Reward and encour\u00adage stu\u00addent inter\u00adest in sci\u00adence in every way pos\u00adsi\u00adble. Build more insti\u00adtu\u00adtions devot\u00aded to pure sci\u00adence. Take out the damn check\u00adbook and pay for the best young minds from any cor\u00adner of the globe we can get them. Let them do real work, not paper-push\u00ading or near-sight\u00aded \u201cprac\u00adti\u00adcal\u201d work. Our present lev\u00adel of pure sci\u00adence research is pathet\u00adic \u2014 per\u00adhaps the worst among the G7<\/span> nations. We are not pulling our weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make it vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly effort\u00adless for any work\u00ading sci\u00aden\u00adtist to vis\u00adit and trav\u00adel in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Revive Canada\u2019s mori\u00adbund space program.<\/span><\/p>\n

Build a larg\u00ader sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic obser\u00adva\u00adtion\u00adal and exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal pres\u00adence in the Arctic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make Cana\u00adda the \u201cgay-friend\u00adliest\u201d nation on earth in both pub\u00adlic and pri\u00advate insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. Pro\u00admote and encour\u00adage gay tourism. Encour\u00adage gays to \u201cride the free\u00addom train\u201d, mak\u00ading it easy for gay cou\u00adples to immi\u00adgrate and acquire cit\u00adi\u00adzen\u00adship. How a coun\u00adtry treats gays is a clear and reli\u00adable mea\u00adsure of the degree of civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion it has achieved. At present, our greater respect for the civ\u00adil rights of gays is the one thing that unar\u00adguably puts us on a high\u00ader moral plane than our cousins to the south. Gay tourism, reveal\u00ading to oth\u00aders a cul\u00adtur\u00adal\u00adly and moral\u00adly advanced soci\u00adety, has a \u201cmul\u00adti\u00adpli\u00ader effect\u201d of influ\u00adences that far out\u00adstrips its imme\u00addi\u00adate eco\u00adnom\u00adic significance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strike down and elim\u00adi\u00adnate per\u00adni\u00adcious anti-mar\u00adi\u00adjua\u00adna laws and oth\u00ader offen\u00adsive vio\u00adla\u00adtions of indi\u00advid\u00adual free\u00addom. Make the world aware that Cana\u00adda is a free land inhab\u00adit\u00aded by free peo\u00adple, not a back\u00adwa\u00adter of sav\u00adages ter\u00adror\u00adized by an intru\u00adsive Nanny-State.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do every\u00adthing pos\u00adsi\u00adble to make it cheap and easy for any\u00adone under 25 to trav\u00adel in Cana\u00adda. Our present facil\u00adi\u00adties for back\u00adpack\u00aders and stu\u00addent trav\u00adel\u00aders are woe\u00adful\u00adly inad\u00ade\u00adquate. Every young Kore\u00adan, Eston\u00adian, or Peru\u00advian who back\u00adpacks across Cana\u00adda at the age of 18, \u2026<\/p>\n

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