Today's announcements
by Prime Minister Legault
1. Daycare centers
Quebec also intends to launch a vast offensive to create the 37,000 missing child care spaces over the next few days
, announced François Legault.
"All parents who want it will finally be able to have a place in daycare," promised Mr. Legault.
For this book, the money thus spent should be paid directly to the parents so that they themselves choose the type of care for their children. Indeed, the current system disadvantages the parents who care for their own small children at home or with a relative . They do not receive any of the manna that is devoted to the increasingly expensive network of CPEs and other daycare centers. Network that has had no long-term beneficial impact on the birth rate (it continues to decline), or on the educational outcomes of young children
(these results are stable at best).
We regret the lack of organization that can represent these “traditional” parents who prefer to keep their young children at home rather than entrust them to employees. Facing the government, the only organized force in this matter is formed by the supporters of the CPEs (employees, unions and owners) who have the collective means to devote themselves to the defense of their interests. So it is they who will be heard over the microphones of journalists to comment on government announcements: they will ask for more subsidized places, higher salaries. Never, it seems, the interests of parents who would prefer to keep their children themselves or in the family are considered.
Quebec also intends to launch a vast offensive to create the 37,000 missing child care spaces over the next few days
, announced François Legault.
"All parents who want it will finally be able to have a place in daycare," promised Mr. Legault.
For this book, the money thus spent should be paid directly to the parents so that they themselves choose the type of care for their children. Indeed, the current system disadvantages the parents who care for their own small children at home or with a relative . They do not receive any of the manna that is devoted to the increasingly expensive network of CPEs and other daycare centers. Network that has had no long-term beneficial impact on the birth rate (it continues to decline), or on the educational outcomes of young children
(these results are stable at best).
We regret the lack of organization that can represent these “traditional” parents who prefer to keep their young children at home rather than entrust them to employees. Facing the government, the only organized force in this matter is formed by the supporters of the CPEs (employees, unions and owners) who have the collective means to devote themselves to the defense of their interests. So it is they who will be heard over the microphones of journalists to comment on government announcements: they will ask for more subsidized places, higher salaries. Never, it seems, the interests of parents who would prefer to keep their children themselves or in the family are considered.
2. Education
To increase the graduation rate among young people, the government intends to establish a permanent tutoring program and to reinvent vocational training by pairing it with internships.In this sense, Quebec wishes to continue to invest “massively” in education. “Education is the future of our society. "
François Legault has set himself the objective of increasing the graduation rate of young Quebecers from 82% to 90%.
It sounds like slogans. The important thing would be first to raise the level (in French, in general culture) rather than increasing the graduation rate, which can be done by multiplying the type of diplomas (some of low quality). [See Quebec - graduation rate on the rise thanks to “qualifications” .]
For this notebook, the best would be to grant more freedom as regards the school programs by allowing in particular the private schools not to be imposed by the State of particular pedagogy or particular ideological content (which is certainly not the case with ECR for example), without having to challenge these ideological contents or pedagogies as Loyola had to do at great expense for years. Private institutions should also be able to recruit the teachers they like.
3. National cohesion
Quebec will replace the Ethics and Religious Culture course with a course on Quebec culture and citizenship, the Prime Minister announced.
Quebec intends to include French as the official language of the province in the constitution.
It's good, but so little.
What about Bill 101 imposed on CEGEPs?
There is also the risk that we find in the new program of "culture and citizenship of Quebec" [ in the singular? ] all the whims of the progressive left: ecologism, multiculturalism, exacerbated feminism, gaping doors to all LGBTQ and ethnic minorities, etc.
4. Immigration
Nothing apparently
5. Birth rate / Demography
Nothing apparently
6. EnvironmentThe government has decided to give up extracting hydrocarbons on its territory in order to achieve its environmental objectives of reducing its GHG emissions by 37.5% by 2030 compared to 1990 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.Quebec wants to create a world pole for electric transport, for the battery sector and for the production of green hydrogen.
We are for a healthy environment and the protection of nature.
It is good to create an industrial sector, if this adventure is profitable and does not end up swallowing
up huge sums of subsidies. See Bombardier.
Reducing emissions by 37% compared to 1990, moreover with a growing population due to massive immigration, will be extremely costly and will have almost no impact (even if all countries keep their commitments). Returning to the level of CO 2 emissions of 2005 by 2050 would thus cost US $ 11,300 per person per year in the United States according to the Wall Street Journal .
It would be much better to extract these hydrocarbons and adapt to rising temperatures (which overall could be a good thing for Quebec, one of the coldest countries in the world).
To increase the graduation rate among young people, the government intends to establish a permanent tutoring program and to reinvent vocational training by pairing it with internships.In this sense, Quebec wishes to continue to invest “massively” in education. “Education is the future of our society. "
François Legault has set himself the objective of increasing the graduation rate of young Quebecers from 82% to 90%.
It sounds like slogans. The important thing would be first to raise the level (in French, in general culture) rather than increasing the graduation rate, which can be done by multiplying the type of diplomas (some of low quality). [See Quebec - graduation rate on the rise thanks to “qualifications” .]
For this notebook, the best would be to grant more freedom as regards the school programs by allowing in particular the private schools not to be imposed by the State of particular pedagogy or particular ideological content (which is certainly not the case with ECR for example), without having to challenge these ideological contents or pedagogies as Loyola had to do at great expense for years. Private institutions should also be able to recruit the teachers they like.
3. National cohesion
Quebec will replace the Ethics and Religious Culture course with a course on Quebec culture and citizenship, the Prime Minister announced.
Quebec intends to include French as the official language of the province in the constitution.
It's good, but so little.
What about Bill 101 imposed on CEGEPs?
There is also the risk that we find in the new program of "culture and citizenship of Quebec" [ in the singular? ] all the whims of the progressive left: ecologism, multiculturalism, exacerbated feminism, gaping doors to all LGBTQ and ethnic minorities, etc.
4. Immigration
Nothing apparently
5. Birth rate / Demography
Nothing apparently
6. EnvironmentThe government has decided to give up extracting hydrocarbons on its territory in order to achieve its environmental objectives of reducing its GHG emissions by 37.5% by 2030 compared to 1990 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.Quebec wants to create a world pole for electric transport, for the battery sector and for the production of green hydrogen.
We are for a healthy environment and the protection of nature.
It is good to create an industrial sector, if this adventure is profitable and does not end up swallowing
up huge sums of subsidies. See Bombardier.
Reducing emissions by 37% compared to 1990, moreover with a growing population due to massive immigration, will be extremely costly and will have almost no impact (even if all countries keep their commitments). Returning to the level of CO 2 emissions of 2005 by 2050 would thus cost US $ 11,300 per person per year in the United States according to the Wall Street Journal .
It would be much better to extract these hydrocarbons and adapt to rising temperatures (which overall could be a good thing for Quebec, one of the coldest countries in the world).