Canada: Québec: Province goes statist, outlawing religion in tax-supported daycares of Jews in name of diversity

Montreal community to challenge daycare religion ban

By JANICE ARNOLD, Staff Reporter

Thursday, 06 January 2011

MONTREAL — Quebec’s outlawing of religious instruction in government-funded daycares will have a “devastating effect,” says the organization that represents 23 centres associated with the Jewish community. Adam Atlas The Association of Child Care Centres of the Jewish Community along with Quebec Jewish Congress (QJC), Federation CJA and the Association of Jewish Day Schools are looking at their options to challenge the new regula-tions, announced Dec. 17, including going to court. Their position is that the subsidized daycares are “not mandated to promote secularism” and that those under Jewish auspices have a responsibility to instil a sense of Jewish identity in children that age. The association plans to call a meeting some time this month of all its centre representatives and parents to discuss what to do next, director Chana Rosenberg said. While the daycares serving the chassidic and Orthodox communities will have the most difficulty complying, Rosenberg said all of the centres would have to significantly alter their activities, including, for example, abandoning weekly Shabbat observance. ------------------------------   end of quote   ------------------------------ There's a lot more that's informative in this excellently-detailed report, further info that fleshes out the statist demonic in Québec's new policy to deploy 'diversity' ideology to socially re-engineer the Jewish community, strictly anti-Jewish that policy is. The Jewish community [people-group, ethnicity, in their multitude of relationships] is a target of the Liberal Party statists and social-engineers, not allowing Jews for instance to have their own internal history which is stabbed in the heart in these new daycare impositions by state ideologues of 'diversity' who have to dilute each of the distinct diversities by forcing them all to mingle their kids [nothing wrong with parents freely choosing a mingle-daycare; some parent Jews do that all thru the young Jews development thru the stages of human growth and the stages of faith development]. Jews have produced prodigious loving-minded scholars who have studied and written about the stages of human development, and of faith formation thru early and middle and teen years; they're expertly available  to the Jewish daycares,  which with these advisers are perfectly qualified to help determine the structure  of the curriculum for some portion of the various daycares and schools all along the spectrum of viable curriculum options for Jews daycaring communally.  They have no need for the meddlesome hands, statist hands trying to determine the amount and kind of observance of holy days that Jewish daycares may schedule.  The govt's policy is destructive in two directions. 'Québec Jewish Congress president Adam Atlas said that the [Liberal] government has not taken into consideration the concerns that the Jewish community has expressed over the past months. “We deplore the fact that the directive reduces Judaism to a strictly religious dimension,” he stated.'  [I woud say 'a strictly pisteutic dimension' - P] This action by anti-Semite Minister Yolande James who has envisioned daycares on the model of social labs, in this case for tinkering with Jewish socialization in the early years, a vision that as public policy constitutes the most outrageous and ethnic triumphalism I can think of in Canada.  Maybe it's commonplace in this my adopted country, but I doubt it.  Notice further that, most of all, the minister's bizarre policy seeks to determine religiously the children from ages 0 thru 5 years of age  in daycares.  Mdme. James wants to determine the format of accessibility to religious ideas that babies and kiddies of Jewish heritage may be allowed to experience, and not tooooooo Jewish, mind you. I guess that once you have survived the curriculum of the Vampire James sucking the life-blood from the Jewish Community by diluting communal consciousness in its own diversity and its communal-internal dialogue, a community again denied the development of its own history with its own forms of ethnic and Judaic daycaring in the postAuschwitz era.  At age 6, you leave the daycare and go to school, where your religious and secular Jewish opportunities to learn your own heritage, precisely a heritage not riven between a sacred and secular dualism, an integral Jewish formation, under the sign of Auschwitz and yet seeking what is jewishly integral -- these people too, say the ministries of anti-Semitism, are to be shepherded into the statist clutches of the Québec schools, after preparatory conditioning for this fate in statist daycares, nominally jewish.  Even the French language is conditioned by the mind/body dualism of the Cartesian Enlitenment. It appears in francophone Catholicism, as well as in Sartrean existentialism, for instance.   Interestingly, in Quebec the kids of Jews learn to speak generally at what is measured as 2 years old and up; so let us hypothesize along that parameter, for the sake of presenting a scenario.  2 to 4 Years ... Verbs begin to predominate; Understands most simple questions dealing with his ... Higher Order and Creative Thinking Skills (3 - 7 Year Olds) .... These Jewish kids have at least three languages to master -- French, English and Biblical Hebrew or contemporary Israeli Hebrew or Yiddish.   This again underscores why Jews who want Jewish daycare for their Jewish kids to advance thru the stages of growth and formation and up the grades in schools with a Jewish peer group, such a people are an exceptional breed of diversity.  Other ethnic communities in Québec rarely have a similar burden of genes, history and idiosyncratic culture.  No Québecois pur laine has a history like that.  I  loved Rimouski, I performed a theatre poem there at the CEGEP, performed in English to an extravagant mime-choreography by Robert Desrosiers, moving and locuting in English for some four hundred fifty embodied souls trés purs laines. And was well received, I was told.  But unlike the wonderful Québecois [some Jews have thoroly assimilated, they believe], Jews have a much more exceptional history, perhaps the most exceptional in the contemporary world. And the minister says these kids shoudn't form a peer group to manage their growing knowledge of the holocaust as well as all the sufferings of Jewish people over time, and all the glories too, and all the smarts of these oncoming generations who feel the horrid awareness, as they grow to maturity, that their blood-kind has been targetted over and over again over the centuries. Québec's state wants to secularize its Jews into nice Francophone clones. It shoud be emphasized that the minister's action is also extremely anti-Judaic [religion -- with many shades, including a distinct Jewish-secular sect that has been recognized by a panel of participating rabbis of all the denominations; recognized as a postAuschwitz Jewish spirituality].  To repress Judaism as a religion, the Minister seeks to displace parental choice, or reduce JewishCommunity-minded Jews to second-class citizens who can't freely associate for their own purposes to determine either the broader ethinic Jewish approach or the strongly Judaic observance approach to curriculum.  Of course, it's a Family minister that is most deafeningly anti-Torah religion, this particular cabinet Minister for the Family having situated herself as the number one govt bigot.  The province of Québec is proving itself to be anti-Semitic thru her. And is trying to restructure the Jewish community to fit its own ultimate values, francophone collectivist values, to fit into that collectivity's definition of humanity, for this purpose Jews are to be manipulated!  Severed, alienated from their own intra-community bonds and tensions, ferments, renewals, their own culture-making, their own history-making, their own generational flow for those who want to participate in that flow. This attempt to distance JewishCommunity-minded Jews from influencing deeply their own new generation's spiritual and cultural formation, shoud be seen against the background of strong support among francophone elites in the province, support for Palestine, and anti-Israel. Please, this ideological stance is not typical of all Québecois. The move by the Liberal Party of Quebec in the person of the minister for the state-supported daycares -- of course, limited in number due to budget restraints at both Federal and now provinical levels too  -- appears to be just another anti-Semitic move by the province's cultural and state elite. It's for Christians, especially reformational Christians in Quebec and all of Canada, francophone and anglophone, to speak up for Quebec's Jewish daycares and for Christian daycares there as well.  That means for Muslim daycares too. -- Politicarp

Canada: Communications: Conservative government wants to revamp state and free-enterprise communications across the continent

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Toronto's Globe & Mail carries an important article by Simon Tuck, entitled "Conservatives set to mould altered CRTC (Jan14,2k7). That's the Canadian Radio Tevelvision Commission which, among other things regulates the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), an English language service, and the French language service Radio Canada. These are the principle means of ideological transmission of the left-Liberal/NDP
worldview in which opinon-making marinates itself in statist Canada. These are also the chief enemies of free-enterprise broadcasting, which has besetting problems of its own in Canada. But the needed inner reformation of f-e broadcasters does not offset the even more drastic necessity of reforminfg the CRTC, CBC, RC, and certain practices of pay-for cable TV carriers like Rogers (which owns the cable TV district I live in, thankyou, CRTC).

The Harper government will attempt to fill as many as seven seats on the 13-member Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission — including the chair — in the next year, and industry officials say the Conservatives are likely to reshape the regulator with appointees who take a more market-oriented view.

Some government and industry officials are suggesting that the Conservatives will also use the openings to add different types of people to the commission — perhaps a consumer advocate or small-business owner — instead of filling it with more veterans of the telecommunications and broadcast sectors.

Some Conservatives, including Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, believe the commission is too close to the two sectors it regulates, and that previous commissioners have been appointed largely because of their experience in at least one of those industries.

“Harper won't call central casting for this,” said one industry official who follows the CRTC closely.

Seats on the commission are considered plum posts because they can pay more than $135,000 a year for up to five years and don't attract great scrutiny.

In filling the vacancies, the government will consider traits such as gender, race, ethnicity, language and region, similar to constructing a mini-cabinet. In the past, six of the seats have been reserved for each of the country's main regions, with about half of the commission coming from each of the two sectors.

But that could all change.

The chair's job came open at the start of the year and the Prime Minister's Office has already rejected the two leading candidates — Fernand Bélisle, a former CRTC vice-chairman of broadcasting, and George Addy, a former Telus Corp. executive who was once head of the federal competition watchdog — because, it is widely believed, each was considered too much of an insider who would be unlikely to lead an overhaul.

Sources say the government is also looking for outsider candidates to fill the two existing commissioner vacancies, but a government official said finding non-insiders who have adequate expertise isn't easy.

North America > Canada

The Conservatives would also like to use the CRTC appointments to change the commission's view of its role, particularly toward the broadcast sector. Mr. Bernier was able to force the commission last year to take a more market-oriented approach toward the telecom sector, but changing the regulator's role in thorny broadcast issues such as Canadian content would be much more politically dangerous. With a minority government, overhauling broadcast legislation is considered highly unlikely.

Many in the broadcast and telecom industries, meanwhile, are concerned that the government will weaken the CRTC by appointing people who simply lack the background to do a good job.

“It's supposed to be a body with specialized expertise,” a broadcast executive said.

Established in 1968 to regulate broadcasters, the CRTC is widely credited with helping foster the domestic television and radio industries, as well as the artists and others who create content.

David McKendry, a consultant who once sat on the CRTC, said the commissioners' role shouldn't be taken lightly. “I think it's very important — we're talking about Canadian culture.”

With seven of the commission's 13 seats either already vacant or scheduled to become so by the middle of November, the expected change in direction comes at an important time. The commission is poised to weigh such tough issues as foreign ownership of a major broadcaster. Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. agreed last week to be sold to CanWest Global Communications Corp. and U.S.-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for a proposed $2.3-billion.

The CRTC is also trying to rebound from one of its most difficult periods and prove that it's still relevant in the digital age. Key industry voices and many analysts have said in recent months that the commission is having difficulty adapting to a world where technology has left national borders more porous. The commission has also had to contend with the introduction of Internet-based telephones, satellite radio, and the emergence of foreign-based broadcasters such as Rai and Al-Jazeera.

A spokesman for Heritage Minister Bev Oda wouldn't comment Friday on the CRTC vacancies.

I've been waiting for Bev Oda to make her move, waiting ever since she was appointed to the Ministery, a ministry whose very name exposes just how much CBC/RC is a statist enterprise. But even more, it's obvious that placing the entirety of the programs and fields under CRTC admin, the entire mixed-bag dumped idiotically into the single category of "Heritage" -- obviously all that is ideologically motivated.

What the very name tells us , first of all, is that there is in Canada actually no general Communications Ministry, a telltale fact that illuminates both the technically retrograde mindsets of the CRTC political appointees -- these all being drawn from the ranks former CBC/RC employees and their supporting bureaucracy -- and a blockage point thru-out the previous federal governments in regard to the development of a ministry effectively grappling with the implications of the rapid advance in all sorts of means of communications via the airwaves and satellites, mobile phones and traditional phones. Traditional phones?--don't get me started. I live in the miserable demi-world where your own name can be put on a commercial list for annoyance calls to y0u, against your will, courtesy of Bell Canada and a business practice approved by the CRTC--unless you double-pay your own way out!

The CRTC package is the dirty little secret behind the "Heritage" concept as the left-Libs handed it down in their dynastic self-replacements (replacements arranged not least of all by scams and scandals). But a misnomered "Heritage Ministry" is what we've got. If we are to retain a statist broadcast system, then, at least let it be devoted to the many heritages of Canada, a history and ethnomosaic broadcasting system perhaps still maintained at federal state expense.

But many other initiatives toward a genuine pluralism of the governing and the regulation of communications according to the principle of public-legal justce for all (worldviews) is an urgent requirement of our day in Canada.

--Politicarp

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