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Politics


Building a strong education system today, makes our province much stronger tomorrow


Brian Pallister


healthier and stronger for tomorrow. As a former public school teacher, I know that our government’s growing expenditures in education and our hard work to improve the system are direct investments in Manitoba’s future. Our Budget 2018 expenditure of $2.8


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billion for education and training is the largest such investment in Manitoba’s history, and a $13.7-million increase from 2017. For public school divisions, our investment of $1.323 billion for 2018-19 strengthens the kindergarten to Grade 12 system with an increase of $6.6 million over last year. Over the past year, as well, our government has com-


mitted to spend more than $200 million to build seven new schools – construction on two of them announced recently in north Winnipeg and Brandon – with a total capacity for 4,425 students and 540 child-care spaces. Tis investment in educating our children, however,


cannot be only about funding increases and capital expenditures. A balanced approach to an improving, quality public school system is required in Manitoba, and that’s the path we are taking by increasing spend- ing for divisions while also creating efficiency and controlling costs. We are making decisions that best suit students’ needs and considering the impacts on local ratepayers and taxpayers as we steer the province back onto a responsible fiscal track. School divisions


y building a strong education system in Manitoba today, we are making our province much


However, these cost reductions must not affect students. It will be school boards’ decisions as to how to find these efficiencies in their administra- tions instead of in their classrooms. As well, we expect divisions to limit their local education property tax increases to two per cent for 2018-19. Our focus, overall, is on the best


possible education for everyone in our province from kindergarten to Grade 12, as shown in outcomes and results. In 2014-15, Manitoba’s cost- per-student expenditure of $12,885 was second-highest of all provinces while Manitoba also had Canada’s second-highest high school dropout


will become much more efficient with our move toward consolidated provincial bargaining, in a way that’s in the best interests of teachers, students and taxpayers. Manitoba is currently the only province with collective bargaining exclusively at the local level between each school board and its teachers’ association, and this has to change. Instead of 38 local agreements, Mani- toba will have one collective agreement for the entire province – an important shift that will put teachers on the front lines and into classrooms instead of around bargaining tables. Classrooms, after all, are where Manitoba’s students need them. To improve the public school system, efficiency must


also come to division administrations whose costs have increased by nine per cent, to $68.4 million, in just the past two years. Our government is reducing admin- istration expenses by 15 per cent in the coming year, generating $2.1 million in savings for school divisions.


rate. At the same time, Manitoba students’ scores in science, reading and math were among the lowest in the country. Our improvements will involve a new literacy and nu-


meracy strategy, in addition to a thorough review of the entire kindergarten to Grade 12 system in early 2019. Te review will include public consultations across Manitoba on issues such as student outcomes, the role of school boards and taxation power, and will play a key role in the direction we take in the coming years. We are carefully guiding Manitoba toward a much


better and more sustainable public education system. Our government will continue to chart this course in partnership with school divisions, teachers and Manitoba families for the benefit of all students and our province’s future. Brian Pallister is the Premier of Manitoba and the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.


Credit cards in grade 9 and lessons from tax frauds? All part of flawed financial curriculum


Dougald Lamont


rate is too high. As a father of four children in the public school sys-


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tem, I have first-hand experience with the problems in a math curriculum which saw scores in Manitoba plummet. Te current Government promised that they would


improve reading and math in Manitoba, but have failed to come up with a plan. Instead, the PCs recently re-announced a “financial


literacy” program; first adopted by the previous gov- ernment. Do you think that it’s a good idea to teach a 14-year-old


how to take out a credit card? How about using lessons for students in grade 9 and 10


written by a convicted criminal who has been sentenced multiple times for fraud and tax evasion? Tose are just two of many highly problematic les-


sons in an “economics” curriculum for students from elementary to high school. Te course, which was praised by the Minister of


Education Ian Wishart and Kelvin Goerzen, Minister of Health, recommends that students read a comic book on how the economy works by Irwin A. Schiff called “How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t.”


anitoba has serious problems in education: too many students have low test scores in reading, writing and math, and our dropout


Irwin Allen Schiff (February 23, 1928 – October 16, 2015) was an American tax protester known for writing and promoting literature in which he argued that the income tax in the United States is illegal and unconstitutional. Judges in several civil and criminal cases ruled in favour of the federal government and against Schiff. As a result of these judicial rulings, Schiff was in prison serving a sentence of at least 13 years for tax crimes at the time of his death, aged 87. The Federal Bureau of Prisons reported that Schiff died on October 16, 2015. Schiff was the father of businessman and former United States Senate candidate Peter Schiff. Taken from Wikipedia. For the full cartoon reference, visit https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxvy9XyUtg


Schiff’s ideas are radical and wrong. To get an idea


of just how off-base Schiff ideas are, he was convicted many times of fraud and tax evasion, including a final sentence to 13 years in Fort Worth Penitentiary, Texas. Te course asks 14- and 15-year-olds to use these


materials to assess whether various political parties’ policies will be good for the economy. You probably don’t want your kids taking Schiff’s advice. Te materials also include a video that claimed that


cellphones and the Internet happened because of glo- balization. Tat is flat wrong. No matter what your political stripe, you should be


concerned that children in Manitoba’s public schools are being fed such inaccurate information. It’s even


worse that students are being asked to use bad informa- tion to evaluate political parties. Tat’s bad for educa- tion and bad for democracy. I had the pleasure of teaching a course in Government-


Business Relations at the University of Winnipeg. Many were business students. I knew it was important for them to understand there are different points of view about the best way to grow the economy - and that even experts disagree. Tese "financial literacy" programs sound good in prin-


ciple - but they have also been criticized because they are being used as a way of teaching students in Junior High School to apply for how to apply for credit cards and car loans. In Canada, the amount of debt has steadily been climbing


for decades. Too many families are at the breaking point with record high household debt. Canadian households owe more than $2.3-trillion, which is more than the entire Canadian economy for a year. Te private debt that is weighing down households is one


of the biggest threats to our economy. People are spending huge amounts on interest, leaving little for other expenses, choking off growth in the economy and leaving families unable to cover their costs. It’s bad enough that our schools aren’t delivering on


fundamentals, like reading and math. When it gets to more advanced topics, like politics and economics, we need to teach critical thinking. It is clear that on education the NDP and PCs haven’t


done their homework. Manitoba students deserve better. Dougald Lamont is the Leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party, and Liberal candidate for MLA St. Boniface


sink to any depth in order to divide Canadians and main- tain their hold on power. As I previously reported,


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Liberal MP Omar Alghabra made some truly vile attacks against the Conservatives after the House of Commons held a marathon voting ses- sion during the Muslim holy day of Eid. Despite the fact that the vote


Attempt to demonize conservatives as islamophobic shows the ruthless divisiveness of the Trudeau Liberals


ehind the “Sunny Ways” facade, the Trudeau Liberals are willing to


the Conservatives as ‘Islamo- phobic.’ During rants on Twitter, Al-


ghabra said, “Eid Mubarak, friends! I wish I could celebrate it with you but @AndrewScheer couldn’t set aside partisanship for 1 day and is forcing votes for 30 hrs straight on one of the holi- est days for Muslims!” He also said, “You don’t be-


timing was actually scheduled by the Liberals, Alghabra at- tempted to use the incident to demonize


July 2018 Spencer Fernando


lieve Islamophobia exists! You disrespect the importance of Eid! You will be voting all night against funding to veterans, RCMP and CAF members! It’s clear who needs to apologize”


He went af ter Michel le Rempel


tweeting,“Michelle, how did you vote on the Islamophobia motion?” And he called Conservative MP Erin


O’Toole, “the Eid grinch.” Now, if this was just one crazy MP it would


be bad enough. But in a series of coordinated tweets, numerous Liberal MPs – many rep- resenting areas with large populations of Canadian Muslims – tweeted similar things. It was a coordinated effort – clearly orches- trated by the Trudeau PMO – to make the Conservatives appear like Islamophobes, despite the fact that – as many pointed out – the Liberals set the vote timing. So, the Liberals orchestrated a ‘crisis,’ and


then used it to score political points in the most divisive way possible. Tis shows the true depth of the ruthless


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divisiveness inside the Trudeau Liberal gov- ernment. Tey are willing to say the worst things, and demonize their opponents in a way that further inflames anger in Canada and divides Canadians. And they were will- ing to do it based on a total lie. Tat is who the Trudeau Liberals really


are. As we’ve seen, Justin Trudeau’s “Sunny Ways” is merely a facade for his intense rage against Canadians who disagree with him, and his whole government is now infected with that hateful attitude. Unfortunately, we can expect this cyni-


cal ruthless divisiveness to continue as the Liberals fear losing their grip on power and that’s why we all need to do what we can to expose the true nature of this government every chance we get.


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