The School System that I grew up in was very sound actually. When I was in Grade Three and supposedly showing this great intelligence (I can remember the standard testing but really I was not that impressed but I was just eight years of age) the school asked my mother to let me go to Victoria Public School which had an advanced program for children like me. I was fine with that but my mother could not see how I could get there (it was a long walk for sure but I did love walking). She also felt it wasn't fair to my siblings which I can understand actually. But in the long run I think both of my brothers closest in age were affected anyway on the one hand I nearly caught up to the older one and I left the younger one four years behind (we were all in the same schools). Plus keeping an intelligent (supposedly I do not claim great intelligence) child in a classroom has the problem of them always having their hand up to answer the questions or do the work that was needed on the board and the other children will just let you do that. It actually de-stimulates those children. When I went to High School at twelve years of age (others have been younger) I elected to take the Business Practice instead of Latin although they tried to persuade me to do otherwise. But I wanted to be able to type and do bookkeeping so that I didn't have to wash baby bottles at the hospital to pay my way through university (and I didn't; I got good jobs every summer once I could work). But I wouldn't blame the school system for my brothers feeling uncomfortable having this sister between them. It did spoil our relationship in that time period for sure and it took a while to re-invent that relationship in the case of my older brother and it never really got to fruition with my younger brother (although that was also me as I didn't want to interfere in his marriage and so made my calls infrequent to him). Plus I didn't live near by and there were lots of reasons why we did not get together. But it was mostly my mother probably didn't want to resolve the problem of my getting to Victoria Public School. I could have lived with my grandmother and aunt and uncle although I have to admit no one ever said that but one doesn't know what gets talked about in the adult world when one is a child. At that point in my life I was living in the attic so that I could read my books in peace but still my brothers would come to play a game of Fish or some other card game often enough and I would stop my reading to play cards with them. They were my closest friends and the ones that I always felt most relaxed with and I enjoyed their company. We had fun when I was a child for sure; but then at 20 I was off and married and gone from my birth home.
I think now the school system is a little weak here although I really do not have much to do with it. But I find that with so many children coming into Canada from around the world where English/French is not their first language they weaken the ability of a class room teacher to manage the education of the children who do speak English/French well because they use up too much of the teacher's time taking away from the repetitive teaching that really is needed at the public school level for the type of learning that is best at a young age. One should be able to do mathematics in one's head; one should be able to recall the elements of history in their mind and not have to look it up all the time and there are many things that should be on the tip of the tongue for these young children. After all that is better than just being able to do Roblox very well or any other games on the computer. We will need their talents in the future and letting the standard IQ decrease is not a good plan. Our brains will shrink if we do not fill them and force them to keep making room for more information. Children should not be in the system until they are fluent in English/French and that responsibility shouldn't be on the teachers or the school system but rather on the parents themselves. They need to get their children out with English or French speaking children as soon as possible so that they are ready to enter the school system and not take up a teacher's time for the things the children native to this country can already do. Day-Care can not provide this; there are too many children - children at a young age need one on one to really do well although by the age of three or even two in some cases they are ready to be with a larger group and need a little less adult supervision.
Personally I do not believe in multi-culturalism (celebrate your ethnicity at home but this is Canada a land originally occupied by the First Peoples who kindly let us come and occupy the lands we now do). I would say that if ever there is a third "official national" language here it should be one selected by the First Nations but we need to leave that to their discretion. It is their choice how we all work together really. But the strength of Canada lies in the merging of all the peoples to the common good of Canada itself - it will flourish ever more with this merger.
This election will be the center piece of that common effort as we move forward making ourselves more trade independent and reintroducing all those industries lost/gobbled up by the much larger country to the south of us. Who would have ever dreamed that those companies in the United States would be so greedy that they took their production off shore to make even more money rendering the present situation. Can it ever come back? I have no idea; will people want to work in factories at such jobs that require minimum intelligence. Really hard to say but the swing towards the trades is rising and along with that the salaries of tradesmen and that will be the pull not factory jobs that pay minimum wage and have little or no incentive in them to be there if you can be somewhere else where you can make more money and have a much more interesting job!