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Quand on vous donne le rôle, vous n'avez rien à faire avec. Une personne peut ne rien faire du tout, s'asseoir à la table du conseil et simplement écouter. C'est correct pour certains, mais heureusement, en général, ce n'est pas le cas.
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Next I want to talk abut being Canadian. Who likes being Canadian? Sweet - me too, but sometimes Canadians just kill me — drive me insane. According to a late 2009 Ipsos Reid poll, 51 per cent of Canadians believe the Prime Minister is directly elected by voters, and a ridiculous 75 per cent think the PM is Canada's Head of State. This guy — okay. Oh, and I did not make this image — if you Google search images of Stephen Harper, this will be the third or fourth picture you will find. Trust me, okay; he's not our head of state friends. Basically, OSTA/AECO, my organization, we had a big problem with this. We felt that Canadians weren't understanding how to be Canadian. They didn't know how our government worked, and we thought about it and we realized — don't we have careers and civics education? You know, there are mandatory courses in Grade 10 — shouldn't we all learn that stuff there? We felt that, and we still strongly feel that, despite the fact that Ontario is the only province to offer civics education in Canada, the way it arrives really fails us. Similarly, kids are even more clueless about what career path to take nowadays, after high school — no thanks to a lacklustre careers education. These are mandatory courses that are taught to every single student in Ontario's education system, and when kids are taking courses that quite literally fail them, there's not much point. So with that in mind, we decided to take action. So we went on another research tirade. We researched and we interviewed students from across the province, all walks of life, high-income schools, low-income schools, different races, sexual orientations, religions, every single facet, every single variable you can imagine, and we found that they thought the exact same. They thought that civics and careers education was more just something that you had to take, get it over with, get it done — something that teachers weren't even excited to teach them. It's very rare that you have an excited civics and careers teacher. I was lucky; I had a civics teacher who was a lawyer before she became a teacher, and she was great, and she loved the stuff. So I felt that I benefitted, but there are so many students that didn't. So this culminated in our report, and I think this is where we're similar, or at least this effort was similar to what you all produce. You guys — you do research, you produce reports, you provide recommendations, and that's what we did. We produced a report called 'Inspi
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