🇨🇦 Ontario can rewrite attendance, but not reality

The funniest part is not the rule change. It is Education Minister Paul Calandra apparently unable to explain his own government’s attendance policy without triggering province-wide confusion. Ontario says high school students must attend in person unless excused, then immediately muddies what counts as an excuse, as reported. Classic managerial Canada: endless bureaucracy, zero clarity, and every stakeholder left guessing while Queen’s Park congratulates itself for governing.

This is what late-stage Canadian administration looks like after years of Trudeau-era institutional decay: schools obsessed with therapy language, equity rituals, and paperwork inflation, yet somehow incapable of stating whether kids are actually expected to show up. A functioning province would back discipline, parental authority, and academic standards without turning basic attendance into interpretive dance. Instead we get another polished mess from a political class that can regulate every corner of life except the collapse happening in plain sight. They do symbolism fluently. Competence, not so much.

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