Ontario’s government makes up policy on a whim: always reacting and never thoughtfully responding

BY STEVEN KASZAB

The public has been placed in a petri dish of socio-political experimentation.

The provincial government is much like all governments; a living breathing entity with no real purpose except to gather revenue and then distribute it as it ideologically sees fit. This agency of “The People,” once elected becomes a limited dictatorship with its own expectations, schemes and desires, bombarding us with the message that all things they do are for the benefit of the electorate. Policies in Ontario are developed and enacted in a haphazardly fashion, often without acceptable consideration for the public’s welfare and economy.

Education Minister Lecce announces that Ontario’s Education System has discovered problems within their Ministry needing to be solved, namely many of our youth smoke and vape a lot. Secondly, youth spend far too many hours on their phones and electrical devices when they should be paying attention to their instructor’s.

Wow what a surprise! Kids are allowed to have playthings at school. Take away these devices, provide attached laptops and voila, kids will pay attention to their teachers. As for vaping, our governments allowed the sale of these items to the public, and while they had every chance to disallow these devices to fall into the hands of hapless kids, they did not take action. Addicted to the revenue generated through the sales of pleasure items and services such as: vaping, smoking, alcoholic beverages, online gambling and casino’s our governments have become the pimps of yesteryears, claiming to be able to manage the distributions and sales of these addictive items and services.

When their badly laid plans fail, and young and old are addicted to the products our government provides, or allows to be provided to the public, the government stands back, blames others for their decisions and tries to manage their mistakes, all the while continuing to allow the growing sales of these addictive products to the public. The very fact the government allowed vaping to become a “thing,” shows you just how hypocritical they are in their treatment of cigarette and tobacco sales. Addicts claim they want to be clean, yet their desire drives them to partake in their preferred addiction just one more time.

Is the Government of Ontario a hypocrite, claiming to give their students the best school learning environment, best tools to learn from, and yet unable to manage a simple problem like student’s attention span, and their use of cell phones? All governments wish to appear as though they are accomplishing something beneficial for the public, but when direct, unpopular decisions need to be made, like whether cell phones are necessary in the school environment or is the inevitable use of vaping/smoking going to happen in that environment, they falter, and often turn on a dime in the other direction. Politicians can be weak and selfish folk, unwilling to be the parents that the public elected them to be.

Furthermore, our children have become tools of experimentation for the education ministry and government. Unable to devise appropriate plans that work, throwing ideas and concepts at the wall hoping something works. The pandemic showed us just how unprepared and dimwitted our leadership can be. Warned by many that the pandemic was on its way, our leaders did not act, nor did they even consider that something as destructive as COVID-19 could attack us.

Minister Lecce may well limit cell phone use in the schools, and vaping will undoubtedly be made unacceptable on school grounds, but his government still allows vaping products to be sold to adults who will often make these products available to our youth, and the soccer moms and dads of the province will assuredly force Minister Lecce to rethink his government’s policies regarding cell phones in the classroom once more.