24th June 2003, 9:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by alien space marine
Since when do liberals or any goverment actually care about education? Ours certainly doesnt and it is liberal, Our government willing to throw 300 million at vancourver for a olympic bid but I havent seen any money of that kind of money go to education were right now we could certainly use it to provide more equipement and good teachers.
Politics is just a bunch of rubbish shit.
The federal government trys to put all kinds of funding into education, unfortunatly it is impossible for them to give funding directly to education. Since education like healthcare is the responsibility of the provinces to put money into education the federal government must give the money to the provinces in the form of transfer payments, but they can't force the provinces to put the money into a particular area, so the province could decide to put the money that ottawa wanted them to put into education into healthcare or building highways. Whenever ottawa trys to change it so that they can tell the provinces have to spend the money where Ottawa wants it to be spent the provinces kick up a big fuss about how whatever area it is is there juristiction, but then they turn around and ask Ottawa for even more money and it is the provinces whith governments that lean more to the left that put more money into education