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  • Eliminating School Trustees Is Not Reform — It’s Treason to Democracy

    Eliminating School Trustees Is Not Reform — It’s Treason to Democracy

    Democracy doesn’t die in a thunderclap. It dies by suggestion.
    One seemingly “unimportant” position at a time, stripped away until accountability becomes optional.

    Ontario’s education minister has now cracked that door open by saying he’s “open” to eliminating school trustees. That is not reform. That is political vandalism.

    Why Trustees Matter

    Trustees are not ribbon-cutters. They are elected by communities to represent families, advocate for students, and act as the first line of oversight in our education system. They attend council meetings, answer emails from frustrated parents, and push back when boards drift away from serving their communities.

    Eliminate them, and what’s left? A centralized, top-down bureaucracy with zero obligation to listen. A machine that no longer has a human face in your neighbourhood.

    The Pattern We’ve Seen Before

    We’ve watched this playbook across the border. Local democracy stripped down, checks and balances treated as inefficiencies, and eventually a system so hollow it became a stage set for authoritarianism.

    To shrug off trustees as dispensable is to walk the same path. America isn’t a cautionary tale because of one election — it’s a warning because the small safeguards were chipped away long before.

    The word is given: Canadians will not trade away democracy for political convenience.

    And it’s becoming clear: we haven’t elected leaders. We’ve elected opportunists looking to advance their agenda and pad their financial standing. Their survival strategy is the path of least resistance — eliminate oversight, minimize accountability, and rely on population fatigue and complacency to do the rest.

    Keep people sick, stupid, and hungry in the name of “progress.” That’s how America fell. And it cannot happen here.

    This Is About Accountability

    Trustees are often inconvenient to governments. They ask questions. They make noise. They bring community complaints into the record. That’s not dysfunction — that’s democracy doing its job.

    If a minister finds that uncomfortable, the problem isn’t the trustees. The problem is the minister.

    The Line Is Drawn Here

    Even suggesting the elimination of school trustees should be recognized for what it is: an attack on our way of life as Canadians. We don’t preserve democracy by applauding efficiency gimmicks. We preserve it by insisting on transparency, on voices at the table, on representatives who answer to the people who elected them.

    And this isn’t a job for someone else to handle. It doesn’t stop at school boards. It doesn’t stop at Queen’s Park. It’s every part of your life — the streets you walk, the food on your table, the wages you earn, the health care you rely on. The privileges you enjoy exist because generations before you showed up, fought, and refused to give them away.

    The word is given: no more erosion, no more complacency, no more silence mistaken for consent.

    This line is drawn here. And it’s ours to defend.

  • When Am I Ever Gonna Need This?

    When Am I Ever Gonna Need This?

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    NOTWITHSTANDING

     

    I cannot help but think that every one of those moments, during my educational journey, where a student whined, “when am I ever gonna need this?” was the moment that should have been met with more “because you are going to be a grown up some day and have to handle some grown up business” instead of “SILENCE! HEADS DOWN – EYES ON YOUR PAPER”.

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    Everything Premier Ford has done, and dare I even say other politicians of the conservative ilk have all done, is rely on a huge number of those kids that just barely squeaked by, the ones that whined about fractions or the Dewey Decimal System, the ones that whined, “when am I going to ever use this in real life”, to be adults now and so fucking confused they just throw up their hands and hope somebody else can figure it out.

     

    Keep them tired. Keep them hungry. Keep them sick. Keep them dumb.

     

    Overwork the parent who has to work 3 jobs to just barely be able to put food on the table and a roof over their head. But the food is not fresh. It is mostly processed, kids aren’t getting enough nutrition, so they are running at less than 100% as well. Immune systems are compromised due to malnutrition, hence the kids are always sick.

     

    Teachers. Wear them down too. Pay them shit. Cut their funding for supplies, tools, resources, development. More hours. Less pay. More stress. Keep the teachers and support staff at near breaking point. Just so the system doesn’t crash but just the bare minimum gets done so nothing snaps.

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    Fast forward to the situation we face today in Ontario; the perfect combination of pieces all fall into place for Emperor Ford’s plan.

     

    Every step completely legal. No one listening to the folks putting their hands up saying, “hey…hey folks we really have a problem here….this guy is pulling some questionable stuff….and that guy over there is pulling some shady stuff”.

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    Keep mixing that brew, working folks harder, keep them tired, exhausted, focused on “survival” rather than building a life, a living, prosperity on their own and eventually you have a majority of the people living under a government they didn’t vote for or did not even vote at all.

     

    I will hazard a guess it would be because no one explained to them the “why” they are going to need to know or use this. Maybe nobody told them their voice counts.

     

    Just what the predators count on.

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