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Like it or not a lot of people's knowledge about the system they exist in comes essentially via osmosis from the media they consume. And most of the media we consume is American. We laugh at Canadians who defend themselves referencing American laws but I suspect a poll of people who mistakenly believe that some American legal concept applies to them would be disturbingly high.

This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important. We have the average person in school for 12-16 years and then a lifetime where you'd hope people would be somewhat self-driven in keeping informed about this stuff, but we've got the humanity we've got and not the one we'd wish we'd got so we'd better ensure the media Canadians are consuming informs us about our own system.

Well yeah, unless you're an immigrant or refugee that recently got citizenship, Canadians were likely last educated about the Charter back in grade school or high school. And never again since unless they look it up themselves.

Honestly I don't think I've ever read it..

This seems like a good place to start, along with some context

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I was in junior high when the Constitution was ratified in 1982. We were each given a copy of it and went through it in a fair amount of detail considering our age.

Quck question to drive the point home: How do you address a Canadian judge?

Duh...

IF education doesn't educate people on something that people NEED to understand,

THEN the population doesn't understand what they need to understand.

This is simply "education" masquerading as education, is all.

Nothing new.

As https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto TRIED getting people to understand, the "education system" in North America was paid-for by the coal industry in order to prevent autonomous competence, .. and once you institute a system, it tends to remain essentially-the-same, in its heart, no matter how much you change its makeup/lipstick/appearance.

~ an autonomously-valid kid isn't dependent on institutionally-bestowed "validtation".

That is, for institutions, an Unacceptable Problem.

Broken, insecure kids, however, are manipulable, and therefore dependent on bestowed "validation", and that is REQUIRED by the institutions. ~

is one of his many points.

"Education" is much more profoundly-wrong, in its orientation, its organization, its frame-of-reference, etc, than it'll tolerate people to know.

A school administrator told me years-ago that ~ when the law came in to permit parents to see ALL of the children's files, because we'd been having secrets on 'em, we just segregated them into the "legal" files & the Dirt Files. ~

Psychologist Susan Pinker laments the systematic failure of education for boys, in her book "The Sexual Paradox".

The book "The Heretic's Guide to Best Practices" identifies that the teacher-lobby will NEVER tolerate any change that would undermine Teacher Importance, no matter how good it would be for the learners/students.

Read John Taylor Gatto's stuff. Education needs to be restructured, right from the very-bottom, to the very-top. Completely. Bandaids-on-broken-bones hides nothing, & never has.

( I'm saying this as a guy who quit trying to get his grade-11, after 5 attempts, many many years ago, because of the intellectual-dishonesty of the "education".

IF you show me evidence that an electron microscope can do 7-million magnification, and you have a handout that says it can only do 1-million, and THEN you dock my test-score for putting 7-million as the magnification of the things, you can go eat rocks.

And yes, I know that scanning/tunneling electron microscopes are waaaay higher in resolution than a mere 7-million magnification.

We autistics have NO tolerance for intellectual-dishonesty-that-is-"right"-because-established-authority.

Fuck institutional gaslighting. )

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Tbh death penalty for people spreading disinformation on the charter. IDC we did away with the death penalty, bring it back just for this. EDIT: yeah that joke was in poor taste.

Corporations continue to infringe on our rights and freedoms every day and get away with it with a slap on the wrist or a fine, so of course canadians wouldn't bother to memorize this I hardly blame them given how absolutely and thoroughly inept our regulatory bodies and politicians are.