Canada could be first country whose kids go to school to learn to be OWS activists

Taken by surprise, yesterday was both precedent setting and momentous for Canada. Yesterday was the day that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) became part of the school curriculum in Canadian classrooms. Indoctrination and Bumper Sticker Education is decades old in the Land of the Maple Leaf but now the three R’s of school day fame is ‘Readin’, Writin’ Arithmetic and Occupy Wall Street. With worries about OWS centered on the violence coming from Oakland, New York and Washington DC, the Obama-endorsed OWS movement, which houses thousands of tented and bed-rolled activists in hundreds of city parks, moved right into the classroom courtesy of unwitting Canadian taxpayers.

“The David Suzuki franchise is expanding into public schools at taxpayers’ expense,” (Toronto Sun, Nov. 7, 2011). “The geneticist was being beamed into classrooms, Tuesday, using the National Film Board and live video links. Suzuki held court for nearly an hour, speaking to thousands of students about the oilsands, climate change, and the Occupy movement. “I am very, very excited about the Occupy movement, because it seems to be a continuation of the Arab Spring,” Suzuki told the virtually gathered teenagers. “In their Occupy movement, they are beginning to point out the enormous inequities in a democratic society--why is it that corporations have so much influence on affecting government policy?” The television host and creator of the David Suzuki Foundation, said corporations and rich people are running the show in Canada. “

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Without an ‘Eat the Rich’ sign and only a virtual smile, Suzuki’s hatred of ‘corporations’ was palpable. “Corporations are what are putting money into supporting political candidates,” he said. “Rich people pour a huge amount of money into supporting political candidates, and so when they get into office, they then, the politicians, tend to reflect the priorities of the people that are giving them money.” The federal government banned corporate and union donations to federal political parties and candidates in 2006. “The scientist went further and said people shouldn't give money to politicians of their choosing either. “I personally don't think that individuals should give money to politicians. “I think taxpayers should have certain abilities, tax dollars should support all kinds of people who want to run for office,” Suzuki said. “When you have people who are incredibly wealthy often not paying anything like the taxes that the middle class or even the poor are paying, there's something unfair about that.” Suzuki failed to point out to his captive teen audience that he himself works for a corporation, the CBC, a billion-dollar-a-year state-funded television network its detractors dubbed, ‘The Communist Broadcast Corporation’. The National Film board is a not-for-profit organization also funded by the Canadian Federal Government. The NFB is promoting Suzuki's biographic movie, 'Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie', that depicts the 72-year-old's life before and after discovering his calling to science and activism. The NFB's mandate, as set forth in the National Film Act of 1950, is “to produce and distribute and to promote the production and distribution of films designed to interpret Canada to Canadians and to other nations.” For American readers who may never have heard of David Suzuki, in 2008, the Order of Canada recipient, demanded jail time for global warming skeptics to a packed house of 600 in Montreal who applauded him. Though a spokesman later said the call for imprisonment was not to be taken literally, Suzuki reportedly made similar remarks one month before at the University of Toronto. Meanwhile, Canada could be the first country whose kids go to school to learn to be OWS activists.