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Volume 10: Issue 2: Democracy in America
C2C Journal
July 22, 2016
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Volume 10: Issue 2: Democracy in America

C2C Journal
July 22, 2016
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Absent Minded: Ontario Tackles the School Attendance Crisis

Christina Park

Canadian schools have a problem – kids aren’t showing up. In Ontario, nearly 60 percent of high school students aren’t meeting the provincial standard for attendance. And Canada leads the world in absenteeism among children of university-educated parents. Yet when Ontario’s education minister announced he was getting tough on truancy, he was hammered from all sides, including “progressive” academics, conservative education reformers, sports parents and, of course, always-angry teachers’ unions. Christina Park looks into the causes of absenteeism and compares Ontario’s reforms to what various other countries are also trying to do about it. As Park explains, nothing can be fixed in Canada’s chaotic school systems until students start showing up for class.

Continental Grift: Why the Liberal Government’s Fixation with Europe Is a Sham

Gwyn Morgan

Market diversification is a sensible enough strategy for Canada, but Mark Carney’s fixation on closer ties with Europe is anything but. For one thing, argues business veteran Gwyn Morgan, we’ve already got comprehensive free trade deals with virtually all of Europe. Cozying up further to a dysfunctional, declining EU is pure folly. Far better for the Carney government to focus on Canada’s own self-inflicted economic problems – inflation, taxes, public debt, the disastrous drought in foreign investment. Oh, and the ongoing lack of free trade within our own borders. No need for overseas adventures, notes Morgan; there’s plenty of work to be done at home.

New Man, Same Old Plan: Mark Carney’s Net-Zero Ambitions Remain an Existential Threat to Canada’s Economy

Gina Pappano

To many Canadians, Mark Carney’s apparent transition from climate-change zealot to build-baby-build capitalist has been a surprising though welcome change. But is it real? Recent evidence suggests the prime minister has not abandoned his longstanding fixation with growth-killing net-zero commitments. Exhibit A is his government’s sustainable investment guidelines. Also known as the “green taxonomy”, this little-known effort seeks to label every development project in the country according to its perceived environmental impact, with the goal of directing where banks and investors are allowed to put their money – and punishing industries deemed unworthy. If not abandoned or watered-down soon, warns industry expert Gina Pappano, the green taxonomy will crush economic growth and cripple the current resurgence in Canada’s vital natural resources sector.

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Letter from the Editors:
Happy Canada Day!

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Celebrating the fact of one’s country’s existence, its survival through the adversities of history and its positive or uplifting attributes is a fact of life the world over, even in tyrannies and oligarchies. Nearly everyone can find something to love about the place they call home. Yet this is apparently not the case for many inhabitants of present-day Canada, who claim that what was once the self-described “greatest country in the world” has suddenly become a systemically racist hell-hole. Despite such pressure from the woke mob and their elite enablers, however, the editors of C2C Journal find much that is not merely defensible about Canada, but praiseworthy and downright glorious.

Did Canada’s first immigrants fall from the sky?

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Aboriginal grievance and entitlement stories made a lot of news in Canada in June. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renamed National Aboriginal Day as National Indigenous Peoples Day. He also renamed his office to erase its historic link to Hector Langevin, an architect of the residential schools system. And he gave the old American embassy in Ottawa to native groups. Still aboriginal activists weren’t satisfied. So they badgered an apology out of Governor General David Johnston for calling First Nations peoples immigrants. Which left the author of this story wondering, where on or off earth do these insatiably aggrieved activists come from?

The Revolution Eats a Few More of its Own

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In 1972 Lou Reed offended conservatives with his hit Walk on the Wild Side, an admiring ode to his transgendered friend Holly, who left Miami as a he and became a she on the way to New York. In 2017 the song has offended progressives as a transphobic example of cultural appropriation. In this article by C2C Staff, the Journal explains what a long, strange trip it’s been from conservative censorship to progressive censorship.

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