Sooey Says

There's an absolutely hilarious provincial Liberal campaign advertisement on television right now. It features Dalton McGuinty smiling maniacally (the smile seems designed to inspire fear, as in: "Vote for me or I'll come to your house and bite the head off your kitten - if you have a kitten. Otherwise...) and delivering an impassioned dissertation on our public school system, our public schools, public public public. He goes on about how this is what makes Ontario - Ontario - our public school system that is for all children. (He mentions all the things kids do together in our public schools and somebody has clearly tacked "singing" on at the end of the list. My son scoffed, "singing?!" So I offered up, "Maybe he has public schools mixed up with Catholic schools. I dunno. They must sing hymns or something at Catholic schools.")

Really. You have to see it to believe it. Watching him say the words, you almost believe he thinks they're true. By omission, like, anyway.

And, by the way, Premier? We know this is what makes Ontario - Ontario. We're just not sure anymore why we can't be a province like one of the ones that actually HAS one public school system. If only so our Premier wouldn't come across as a total eedjit maroon on his televised election campaign advertisements talking as if we do when in fact, we have one public system more than seems right, really. Or fair, even. We have TWO public school systems. Two public school systems that duplicate each other in the kind of way that only costs taxpayers money, with one of those public school systems actively discriminating against non-Catholics.

Lucky for you one candidate has gone off his nut and recommended that taxpayers fund all manner of private religious schools and the other one, well, I dunno - is in favour of taxpayers funding private Catholic educations, too, I guess.

Because that's the system we actually have, Premier. Just because you don't mention it in your televised election advertising campaign doesn't mean it isn't there.