02-01-2024, 02:05 PM
(02-01-2024, 12:34 AM)Kodra24 Wrote:(01-31-2024, 11:17 PM)nms Wrote: If by "increasingly eager to do" you mean to ensure that everyone in society has an equal part to play, then I'm all for it. Past cases where the government has told society how to act, speak and think:
- granting women the right to vote
- granting anyone who wasn't a white male the right to vote
- granting everyone fundamental freedoms, democratic rights, mobility rights, legal rights, equality rights, official language rights and minority language educational rights regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, sex, and disability.
We as a country, province, region and cities/townships have suffered through 40+ years of public thinking that governments need to be "small and efficient," which has generally meant cuts to programs and services that are now beginning to affect more than just the marginalized. As a Region we are thankfully in no where near as bad a shape as other cities such as Toronto.
To ensure everyone in society has an equal opportunity yes, but not equal outcome
There is so much that is wrong with our country right now, but I'll decline to elaborate further in this thread as it's going quite off-topic now
Nobody here is arguing for equal outcome, but that's a pretty common excuse to refuse to actually consider whether people have equal opportunities.