This doesn’t happen often, mostly because politicians don’t dare to dream. And, as Kim Campbell infamously put it during her brief tenure as prime minister,…
This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site.Authors: Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University
Here are the good ideas we noticed during the election that should be implemented by Doug Ford’s victorious PC government and then scaled up for the rest of the country.The Ontario Liberals proposed the introduction of an optional Grade 13 for at least four years to let kids who missed out on a significant proportion of their school experience because of COVID-19 catch up.
Ontario had the worst track record in Canada on classroom closures and reliance on virtual learning during the pandemic, and Canada had one of the worst track records in the world. It’s obvious that as the pandemic subsides, we will need to help kids recover.Affordable housing is needed everywhere and is approaching a dire crisis situation throughout the country, although no governments have plans for action in any magnitude that will help.
It can get more people accustomed to using public transit, which will have a positive effect on greenhouse gas emissions. In Ontario, Bill 124 caps some public sector wages to increases of one per cent a year, targeting jobs mainly done by women. With this kind of government directive, there’s no genuine public sector wage bargaining and it serves to increase wage inequality within the sector.
This would be a smart move for all of Canada. Governments across the country need to plan for labour in the care sector, but as long as strong bargaining rights are not possible because of government directives, shortages will continue.Problems stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic are almost universal throughout the country, so progressive ideas from anywhere should be disseminated.
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