Meet the prime minister who waited three years for hip replacement surgery

Made you look! That prime minister doesn’t exist. There’s a reason for that. Those who rule over us see the world differently because they live in a different world. They make decisions based on what makes sense for the world they inhabit, not the world the rest of us live in. That’s why so many government policies make no sense. If there’s a health care crisis, we can fix it with more private clinics. If there’s a doctor shortage, we can fix it by poaching doctors from Africa. No one at the governance level, where the decisions are made to throttle admissions to our medical schools, will ever be held accountable. Our education system is a mess, from pre-school to post-secondary. I spent 25 years watching my remedial math students walk across the stage at graduation with high-school diplomas and grade three math skills. The post-secondary system is addicted to the foreign student revenue stream. Not to hire more tenure-track academics, but to grow the bureaucracy. Not one in a hundred PhDs will ever have a tenured professorship. Nobody in the halls of power is at risk of homelessness. That’s too bad, because many thousands of Canadians are. Their ranks will only grow as our overlords ramp up immigration without anything whatsoever resembling a housing policy. Even grade three math skills should be enough to discern that when immigration far outpaces housing starts, you are only ramping up the housing crisis. That’s where we’re at, and the idiocy obtains in every domain. Foreign policy. Let’s scrap the entire Global Affairs edifice and replace it with a secretary and a spokesperson who’ll read the instructions from Washington and announce them at a press conference. We’d save many billions. Look at the poor pathetic Canadian Armed Farces. We’ve been watching one after another of top brass have their careers destroyed because an unauthorized ass-grab in basic training, forty years ago, just came to light. The same leadership cadre pursuing these witch hunts are simultaneously scratching their heads over why nobody wants to pursue a career in the CAF. Don’t even get me started on the defense budget. Really smart people claim we need to spend untold billions on F-35 fighter jets. So we do, never bothering to question either the intelligence of those really smart people, or the necessity of those jets to the actual national interest of the vast majority of Canadians. In my 25 year teaching career, I never encountered a curriculum document that didn’t pay lip service to “critical thinking.” There was a rogue prof at Western, in my teacher-training days, who claimed you had to know something before you could think critically about it. Unfortunately, that’s not how we roll.