QuebecOverCanada

1 This is not really comprehensible to be quite honest with you. The goal of academia is to teach children, not having a professor of the same origin as the student or be a census oriented institution. I would much rather have teachers who have competence over someone who has the correct skin tone or ethnic background according to the demograph paid by the government agencies a fortune to determine. 2 It isn't bad to have teachers who are proficient in more than one discipline, as they all intertwine in a way. I don't think lowering the standards will bring in better elements, nor that much worse. 3 I like the fact that you may soon enough will be open to change your mind. Spontaneously, you qualified it as an evil. 4 We have to use the proper definitions of terms we use to have a productive and comprehensible conversation about things, whatever they may be. Wokes who make demands nowadays which are mostly preposterous, such as cancelling J.K. Rowling for calling women... women... ( https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/j-k-rowling-faces-backlash-after-tweeting-support-transphobic-researcher-n1104971 ) or are acting like every disparity or discrepancy between groups of people is a symptom of racism are not the same as the Civil rights movement, which has its own Wikipedia page, and tons of literature about. These men and women of African origin mainly fought a cause that demanded equal rights and opportunities as White people. They were fighting a just cause, and won. Don't soil them with comparing them to Wokes. The proper term would be they were radical in their approach, like the Wokes, but the comparison stops here. Wokes are travesties, they con you by pretending to have a degree of empathy toward social issues of all kinds, be it racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, but are really just alienating the rest of society to fight these real issues by how extreme their view of equality is, which isn't what even most of people on the Left think - that equality of opportunity is the key in society to social justice -, but think equality of outcome trumps every other method to which we compare every races. Lowering education standards is just a price to pay according to them to get the goal they are seeking to accomplish; equality of outcome across the board. Simple as is. In the case of this specific verdict, for example, the verdict only defined discrimination in virtue of if the results respected the wet dream of equality of outcome on a bivariate analysis between race and the math test results that would be analyzed, without taking any other factor into consideration. This leaves the door open for many situations in which we would lower the standards of society for racial justice pretense, or take possession of private property of privileged groups to give it to the other groups which will be justified as means to obtain equality. Which isn't something I would like to see happening. There needs to be programs to have less inequality in Canada. But thinking the wokes have some kind of resemblance to the CIvil rights activists is wrong, because they make the fight for equality and the messaging harder to take notice because they are clowns who make a lot of noise while the reasonable are quieter. 5 Merry Holidays to you too. ?

I wouldn't qualify people who fight to sit on the same seats and drink the same water fountains as White people in the 60s as being woke. They were Civil Rights Activists.

Is lowering standards an effective solution to combat racial inequality of outcome? I find it quite degrading for my personal experience. I remember when we had, all froshies, a written English proficiency test for my first year in University. Since I was French speaking, my grade to technically pass was lower, even though I aced the exam higher than the grade native English speakers had to get to pursue their studies. And I was perceived as someone from my anglophone peers as someone who just passed because of its mother's tongue.

Yes. But wokism doesn't come from anywhere, it has its origins in French Theory, which is rooted in anticolonialism post WWII.

Is the goal of maintaining a certain percentage of racial quotas by removing the test entirely due to the fact that there are more successful ethnic groups than others, or have I missed something?

There are multiple points. First off, the anti-racist/white guilt movement has gone too extreme. Even judges let go of common sense and their sense of judgement for ideology. The fact that math tests are deemed discriminatory is preposterous, they are math equations. There is no discrimination in rating a math exam. Discrepancies between groups of people are not caused in that case by racism. The verdict is simply the reflection of an ideology -wokeness- that thinks that every discrepancy between certain groups of people is proof of a privilege, or discrimination. Also, there is the fact that there is a crowd out there in English Canada who thinks badly about everything Québec does for maintaining its identity, beit from Bill 101 to 96 to the controversy about Bill 21, it seems to always have someone in Canada crying tears because muh multiculturalism wasn't respected to your extent. You know, if I think we went too far with Bill 21 with the teachers that I think should be exempted, I think Ontario goes too far in the other direction with this judgement. Lastly I think it is good that we focus on academic freedom in Québec at least. The quality of social/human sciences lay there. It is not a coincidence we have so many Prime Ministers of Canada who come from Québec. We have excellent academic institutions such as Udem, Laval, McGill among others for only 8 million inhabitants and protecting them from mobs is going to be a good bet for the future.

Meanwhile, in Québec, we take the threat of woke mobs very seriously compared to the folks in the rest of Canada. And we act. We don't have crazy enough judges, just yet, it seems, to have such a preposterous judgement from our justice system, and we kick the wokeness problem in its nest; the academic system. ---- Opinion: Quebec commission proposes bold new approach to protect academic freedom from woke mobs Christopher Dummitt and Zachary Patterson: In Quebec, a commission is recommending strong action to turn the tide against reactionary mobs Anyone in Canada who retains even a glimmer of hope that universities can return to being bastions of free thought and academic freedom should watch Quebec, where a commission of inquiry spent the summer and autumn hearing from witnesses and conducting research into the sorry state of post-secondary education in the province. It collected tales of students attempting to get professors fired for saying the wrong word, of cancelled lectures and of intimidation. None of this should come as a surprise to those who follow university affairs — or the current culture wars in general. Cancel culture is even worse now than in 2018, when British journalist Andrew Sullivan remarked that, “We all live on campus now.” Each week seemingly brings another example of a woke mob determined to tear down a statue, change the name of a street or pressuring libraries and school boards to ban books. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-quebec-commission-proposes-bold-new-approach-to-protect-academic-freedom-from-woke-mobs

There are some news coming from Ontario that look like Onion/Bee articles. Apparently, math test results are now viewed, by the Ontario Divisional Court, as something not only trivial, but has an adverse effect on racial minorities terribly afflicted by them in the province of Ontario. According to the Court, there are discrepancies in successfulness at this test across races, and that means it is racist by itself. And you wonder why Québec wants to separate itself? --- The Ontario Divisional Court has ruled that the Ontario College of Teachers shall grant certification to teacher candidates who have not yet passed the Math Proficiency Test but who have otherwise met all other teacher certification requirements. The Divisional Court found that the Math Proficiency Test had an adverse impact on entry to the teaching profession for racialized teacher candidates and other reasonable alternatives should have been implemented. “OTF applauds the efforts of the Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council (OTCC) for pursuing this successful legal challenge. There is no research to suggest that a standardized test would improve student outcomes or enhance teacher pedagogy. Ontario has some of the best educated teachers in the world and this decision reinforces their professionalism,” stated OTF President Chris Cowley. Link to the story; https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/news/ontario-court-declares-that-the-ontario-math-proficiency-test-is-unconstitutional/ The judgment in pdf; https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/2021-12-16-OTCC-v-Ontario-FINAL-signed-by-all.pdf

So you're part of these "investors", or as we all call them, parasitic leeches landowners who think they figured life because they got a discount duplex that has to be entirely redone and underinsured. Sure seems like a Smartass aren't you, let's play a little game. Try to find a decent apt for 950 right now with your sq foot and your neighborhood today. You're actually clueless about the market you are leeching on.

Lol. Look at the current prices for housing everywhere. Get out the basement you retired retarded boomer, and see what is left.

My landlord told me the condo I reside in, in Montreal, which is in a developing neighborhood, not even downtown or quite a high standing, is going to be sold for 421K. It is two bedrooms. 850 square foot. The pig bought it for 250K three years ago. He rents it to us for 1500 a month. If we were to buy it, it would be around 2500 a month for just the mortgage. This is the top priority. If I don't get proper housing or a semblance of affordability, what exactly makes me to be willing to put in the effort to work/add value to our system/collectivity if it's all going to be stolen by greedy banks, governments and current landowners? What do I have to lose to pop the bubble and destroy the wealth accumulated by Liberals and all those greedy f**ks who think housing is an investment, not a right? So do millions of young Canadians like me. Social cohesion comes from affordability of things. Hope. There is none with our current government/system. This is a serious threat.

I agree we should stop disappointing you. Please let us separate. We beg you.

Good question! I don't know! We are the problem it seems. Please kick out us!

Montreal is Québec land and is French speaking. And by the way you can have Gatineau. We offer it to you.

I completely agree with you. We should separate.

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This is something that I wasn't aware of. He's even dumber and dangerous than I thought. Very divisive.

CNN's Don Lemon is now entraped in this scandal too, tipping off Smollett that he police knew he was lying, leading to Smollett revealing he withheld evidence because of this tipoff. Smollett is betraying his loved ones and friends to get less time than he deserves. A real liberal and Democrat at heart.

What if we thought we should inflict consequences for your ideas and choices?

I legitimately don't think Trudeau is at all to blame in this for this specific case. He on the other hand is to blame as he finished our country financially and created a housing bubble that may burst soon and increased out debt and inflation by a bunch. But in this specific case, I think the provincial governments who enforce these rules are barely acting constitutionally. I don't think you may deny access to a grocery store in New Brunswick when it is known that distances are quite high in between stores and homes and doesn't have public transit. Delivery service in rural area is barely existing. Strangely, New Brunswick has only 121 deaths from COVID in almost two years, and it has some of the most severe measures for no apparent reason.

It's crazy how out there they straight up enforce prohibition, even though it is known that it doesn't work. They like a government that overreaches for their 'security'. The government admitted they were abandoning a '0 COVID' policy. They locked down the country for a few months if I remember, and they even shut down the country because of 1 case declared. New Zealand enters nationwide lockdown over one Covid case New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months. The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days. Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58241619

Aristides is scared shitless of the virus. Or he cares so much. In both cases, in a healthy society, we should tell him to f*** off.

In Iran, people whip themselves in the streets as a holiday. Physical pain is seen as something that is often associated with purity of the soul, or feeling like the prophet such as the Opus Dei cult for the Catholics who think hurting themselves make them closer to Jesus. Otherwise, punishing and giving into inquisition is fundamentally a religious calling too, it just projects the pain into others rather then interiorly. What you are giving as a solution is too pragmatic and close to home. It does not target a certain group of people and it is not preachy. This is against the COVID cult which projects disgust towards certain groups of people and want to exclude them as they see them as diseases rather than humans.

So anxious, aren't you. Want a hug?

It is relatively easy to see that he is the sophist Socrates warned us about a few millenia ago.