{"id":6336,"date":"2020-08-25T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:03:22","slug":"why-are-canadians-obsessed-with-equality-of-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/25\/why-are-canadians-obsessed-with-equality-of-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Canadians obsessed with \u201cequality of outcomes\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OK, the Conservative party has a new leader, it seems, after a LONG messy voting night. His name is Mr. O\u2019Toole. Congratulations to him: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Yannick Lemay (published in the Journal de Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> on August 24, 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bambi was curious to see the reaction of Mr. Maxime Bernier (PPC) who ran against Mr. O\u2019Toole and Mr. Scheer in the past. Mr. Scheer \u201ccheated\u201d in the past by drinking too much milk from Qu\u00e9bec. As for Mr. O\u2019Toole, he arrived third. Well, without being an expert voter of the Conservative party, Bambi wondered if the two men may consider an alliance ?. Well, obviously, this is not happening. Here the reaction of Mr. Maxime Bernier:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/programs\/headline-politics\/episodes\/66252680\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi got more curious about this Mr. O\u2019Toole, after\nreading the above and listening to Bernier\u2019s press conference too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went to read earlier articles about him and the\nthree other defeated candidates. Here is one by CTV News<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/7-things-we-learned-during-the-english-conservative-leadership-debate-1.4990946<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was striking to her was how much the four\ncandidates seemed to want to be perceived as being on the same page. They kept\nsaying how much they agree with each other ?.\nBambi\u2019s reading of all this is that they, along with the Liberals (at least\nunder Mr. Trudeau) all have the same common denominator: Political\ncorrectness<\/em>, this insanity of our times. Another fancy term for lack of\ncourage simply. In the end, perhaps \u201cMad Max\u201d is not that off, after all.\nPerhaps his apparent craziness is simply courage that we no longer see in\nneither our public servants nor around us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, from the article above, we learn that at least two, if not three of the candidates, including the winner and Dr. Lewis (and Mr. MacKay) use the term \u201cequality of outcomes<\/em>\u201d. For example, Dr. Lewis said verbatim: \u201cConservatives are uniquely placed to be the party that champions equality of outcomes for all Canadians<\/em>\u201d (in a question on another widespread obsession, at least in the mainstream media, called \u201csystemic racism<\/em>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is odd how so-called Conservative politicians and lawyers, specifically, use the term \u201coutcomes<\/em>\u201d instead of \u201copportunities<\/em>\u201d. No one can, or should, control (or aim\/pretend to aim) to control societal or familial or educational outcomes. We provide equal opportunities to our kids, students, society members. This is what we should aspire for fairness. However, out of fairness as well, we should leave individuals in families, societies, institutions free to live their own journey, learning curve, and make their own choices. Some will succeed (hopefully all, with hard work). Others may fail and re-try. It is called learning in life. It is a healthy competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, we are observing a scary trend in our actual society where radical views are pushing us all toward more authoritarianism. Because this trend is a socialist trendy wave, no one questions it (we only obsess with the USA\u2019s Mr. Trump). Those who do question excesses are dismissed or\u2026 \u201ccancelled\u201d, meaning censored. This is odd, in Bambi\u2019s mind, because Canada is already a socialist country (under Mr. Trudeau, it is so in both an excessive and corrupt way). Why push for more authoritarianism than a flexible (thus, smart) socialism. A successful example may be New Zealand and its clever socialism. It could also be an example of smart capitalism, tailored to a country\u2019s needs. Of course, too much abuses or interventions in either a capitalist or a socialist direction can backfire on a society. Bambi may be biased but between too much socialism (without critical sense) or some capitalism (i.e., free market, not wild, not corrupt, with genuine green concerns, neither virtue signalling nor suicide), she prefers a healthy capitalism. In her mind, the latter is based on merit. The latter is supposed to be free and thus fair for anyone\/all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bambi\u2019s non-expert citizen opinion, an economy\nmoving forward is what is badly needed in recovering from a traumatizing\npandemic, not a so-called \u201cgreen economy<\/em>\u201d as Trudeau\/Freeland et al.\nkeep telling us. We just need our economy\u2026 and with it our country back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not in the sense that some scholars or rather\nactivists mean it. It is a whole functional country that is needed, not one part\nagainst the other, not one group or tribe over the other (despite historic\nabuses), not one community against the other\u2026 Unlike the Middle East or the USA\nnowadays, please let\u2019s unite and strengthen our beloved Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who cares who will be the next Prime Minister!? Let\u2019s keep loving or let\u2019s learn to re-love Canada, with or without Mr. Trudeau or Mr. O\u2019Toole or whomever. This is what matters the most, more than heads of governments that will eventually come and go, even when we feel that they have lasted for too long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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