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If they did it they might finally be able to get that triple-E senate they seem to want.

   

i dont like the idea of all 4 of those provinces merging as one but i do like the idea of the said 4 provinces as well as the 3 territories forming a new country

   

Then your general understanding is wrong. Sir John A. wanted a centralized Government(Ottawa) with all the power. He had seen what had happened in a decentralized America a few years earlier(Civil War) and didn't want something like that happenign in Canada. Also, remember that back then America was still high on its"Manifest Destiny" bullshit and was still eyeing up Canada and her then unclaimed west.


You clearly know shit all about Canadian history.

   

Fifeboy

No! We could start teaching science in highschools instead opf the leftist version of scientology called CO2 AGW. We could burn the current history texts, (leftist pamphlets) and re issue the textbooks of the fifties prior to the revisionists posing as teachers.

To effect this we would take the current teacher-posers (lefty handringers, tree-huggers) give them an axe and have them cutting pulpwood north of Superior. That was the Soviet answer to anti-social, enemies of the people.

   

Yes, by all means let's bring back the gulag.....


Who the hell is this fucking retard?....

   

What a load of unmitigated dreck! You think that the current Ontario Curriculum is Leftist?!? You have no idea who helped write the history curriculum, do you? Tell you what - i'll be sporting here, you show me how current Canadian History texts are Leftist. You made the claim, now you back it up with some specific examples from the text and how they're ideologically bias to the point where that it's ahistorical.

You'll dodge and when you do, i predicted it.

   

That's par for the course around here.

   

I don't necessarily think that current textbooks are biased rather than just devoid of knowledge. I have a history textbook from the US that was published in 1961. I could learn more about Canada or the US from that than from anything current.

   

I seriously doubt that. The current Ontario curriculum is comprised of multiple historical streams and its expectations stress historical methdology including historiography. You're telling me that your 1961 textbook evaulates social, cultural, military, political and economic issues while simultaneoulsy promoting histoircal inquiry skills?

But, by all means, what "current" textbook pale in comparison?

   

What happened to my POLL?

   

Unfortunately, most of my education was in the US, so I judged too hastily on Canadian textbooks and assumed that the same people wrote them all.

My secondary education was in a state where education was thrown aside to accommodate the new wave of standardized tests designed so that 90% of takers pass, and throw out all other curriculum and force teachers to teach from books that gloss over details on most things. The civil war was solely about slavery, Canada is still a British colony with a capital of Toronto (when I protested I was told very forcefully that important foreign decisions are still made in London), and the revolution was just because people wanted civil rights.

My book from 1961 definitely is superior to the crap they give out in Ohio. It could do with some updating with regards to the "wonderful new possibility" of colour television and the "possibility that one of you will help to integrate the negroes."

   

The "newer" Canadian textbooks are significantly better than their predecessors. They do address content issues and their multiple steam approach covers a lot of ground on historical inquiry. Despite what absolute ignoramuses prattle on about, it's a relatively ideologically neutral curriculum and many textbook reflect this (at least in Ontario).

   

I do however think that more Canadians need to be reading about the country they live in. Good books are wasted on those that refuse to retain what they read. To go to La Citadelle and be told that the "British regime" ended on "Canadian Independence" in 1867 is an unacceptable fallacy. Canadian independence was a long fade out, not one day. Go to someone on the street and ask who the Canadian head of state is, see how many people tell you the Prime Minister.

   

BC is closer to Azerbaijan than to Ontario or Quebec.

Lets join our comrades instead.

AzebaiBC inc.

We could dump the useless Senate at the same time.

   

You can't compare the prairies to BC, and besides Alberta wouldn't want to share it's oil money with us hippies in BC

   

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