Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I guess reading isn’t too important to a Prime Minister who hopes to write a book about hockey. After all, there will be kids who will buy the book about hockey, who needs adult readers anyway? According to John Baird, it’s too late for adults who can’t read, and there’s not much point in trying to make them literate.

“We’ve got to fix the ground floor problem and not be trying to do repair work after the fact,” Baird said.

Exactly! If they can read, they might vote for a party that cares about them. People like former Montreal hockey coach Jacques Demers don’t deserve further education opportunities, even if they want them at a stage in their life when it’s mortifying to be illiterate. Yet again, Conservatives are proving to be more compassionate than they legally have to be toward people who have a harder life than they do.

I wonder what Harper’s wife will tell him about her day handing out papers to children. Will the media asking her the obvious question about literacy program cuts come up at all? I bet she thinks its a bit odd that an aspiring author would be so against teaching adults to read if they were ruined by the education systems in governments past.

Maybe he’s just a constitutional stickler, and figures that since education is a provincial matter, he’d better not dedicate any funds to literacy programs. Oh, but then why isn’t he for the same constitutional separation that gives Saskatchewan full rights to its natural resources like oil revenues? Maybe Conservatives just can’t govern?