One Million March 4 Children

I was invited to attend a rally to show my support for parents who wish to eliminate the woke influences thatindoctrinate their children in public schools. I chose to write about it instead.

Indocrination in public schools?

Today, the 20th day of  September, organized protests are taking place across Canada with advertisements like the one shown. Parents are organizing to end the systemic indocrination of their kids who they know to be easily influenced by the unwanted trans and gender nonsense that has been introduced into public classrooms.

Those ‘woke’ influences are in direct opposition to the personal beliefs and values of most parents who prefer school time to be devoted to more valuable academic lessons.

Public sector labour unions.

Union representatives will also attend these rallies, allegedly to call out the “hate speech” that they expect to hear expressed by the protestors.

The term “hate speech”, like “climate change”, has special powers in the realm of politics and public governance. All manner of evil is associated by invoking those words. Like a witch’s spell, the “hate speech” incantation will define the line between good and evil, and any legacy journalist who bothers to attend one of these events will surely write about it in those terms.

A Libertarian political solution.

Under Platform at the Ontario Libertarian Party web site, section ‘Individual Freedom’ you will find the following words to explain why public sector monopolies are not in the interests of our citizens and what can be done about it. I doubt if any protesters will bring this idea into public discussion as a potential course of action.

INTRODUCE COMPETITION to Public Services

Choices multiply to serve the broadest range of consumer and business needs when healthy competition exists in markets.

Choices shrink when services are restricted to centrally-planned government monopolies.

Constraints to personal rights are constraints to freedom. Excessive laws and regulations should never be tolerated by citizens who desire the rich choices offered by a truly democratic society.

Accordingly, our citizens must vote to

• Increase the availability of non-government service providers. In Healthcare and Education, for example, there will be many more choices for patients and students.

A point of interest.

Mr. Chris Christie is a Republican candidate for President of the United States. Public Education reform is a the top of his election platform.

Listen to him speak about it in his podcast interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Chris also recognizes the need to break up the public sector Education monopoly.

Mr. Christie believes that school funding must follow the student instead of the schools and their administrative institutions. Competition is his answer to the many failures of public Education across America.

Among the many benefits of enabling the growth of an Education sector that features many competitive teaching options is one that deserves special mention. It will curtail, and ideally end altogether, the excessive and harmful influence of the powerful teachers’ unions. Their self-serving interests were on full public display during the Covid years.

What can Canadian parents and grandparents do?

Can Canadians identify and support only local political candidates who show the courage to follow Mr. Christie’s lead on this issue? It will certainly take courage and tenacity because the blowback and aggressive opposition from teachers unions is sure to be fierce.