🇨🇦 Burnaby protected pronouns, not student data

Hackers walked off with parent and student names, contact info, birthdates, grades and school names, and Burnaby School District can only say the data may have been leaked, as reported. That is the modern Canadian public sector in one tidy farce: endless sermons about inclusion, equity and digital transformation, but somehow the basics like securing children’s records are optional.

This is what managerial liberalism produces: bloated administration, endless policy theatre, and systems too incompetent to defend the most elementary public trust. Parents are expected to hand over intimate family data to institutions that can barely run email safely, never mind cyber defence. Ottawa and the provinces love centralizing databases, expanding surveillance and funding every fashionable consultant under the sun, but when citizens need actual competence, the cupboard is bare. In a sane country, protecting Canadian families would rank above ideology workshops and bureaucratic vanity projects.

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