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Subject: My bad
In the article: European colonizers' mass killing of Native Americans caused change in climate: study I made an error:
This �study� indicates that due to the horrible actions of European colonizers, forests grew in size and atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide increased, resulting in a cooling of the earth�s temperature and �the little ice age�. That should have been decreased, not increased.
That said, North American aboriginals were mostly nomads, hunters and gatherers. Some did limited farming. South American aboriginals developed large towns and did more farming (more like gardening), but they lacked the tools to create large tracts of farmland.
The hypothesis that aboriginals had cleared over 640,000 Km2 for farming is silly. That is 98.75% of the area of Saskatchewan.
Reforestation takes decades.
My apologies for the error. I do my best to keep my e-mails accurate, but like anyone else, do make mistakes.
John Feldsted
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Subject: Trudeau Concerned About Possible Ontario Education Cuts By Ford Government
Shawn Jeffords
Canadian Press
HuffPost
02/01/2019
MILTON, Ont. Justin Trudeau says he's not just concerned about possible cuts Premier Doug Ford could make to Ontario's education system as Canada's prime minister he's also concerned as a father with children in the province's schools.
Trudeau made the comments during a wide-ranging town hall meeting Thursday night at a Milton, Ont., high school. The prime minister said he was "deeply concerned" about comments Ford made Wednesday, refusing to rule out cuts to all-day kindergarten and potentially growing class sizes in the province.
"I'm also a parent who has three kids in the Ontario public school system," he said, adding the potential cuts "worry me as a parent who's got his youngest kid in all-day kindergarten right now."
Full-day kindergarten, class size caps could get the cut
Ford said Wednesday that he isn't guaranteeing that full-day kindergarten will continue beyond the next school year.
The program was introduced by former Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty and was fully rolled out in 2014. It saves families thousands of dollars a year in child-care costs, but it costs the province $1.5-billion a year, at a time when the government is grappling with what it says is a $14.5 billion deficit.
Ford's government is conducting education consultations, including about the possibility of removing class size caps for kindergarten and primary grades.
Read on: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/02/01/trudeau-ontario-education-cuts_a_23658517/?ncid=newsletter-Canada%20Politics%20Feb%201&utm_campaign=canada_newsletter_Canada%20Politics%20Feb%201
Education is a provincial jurisdiction and responsibility. Mr. Trudeau cannot comment as �a father� while he is Prime Minster. That is an abuse of authority and power.
The Ontario government faces some tough decisions that may anger some electors and includes inherent political risks. The Ontario government, not Mr. Trudeau, has to undertake funding for full-time kindergarten and class size caps. The costs are significant.
Trudeau has to respect constitutional responsibilities and stop messing around in provincial jurisdictions. The federal government is partially responsible for our health care difficulties and spiraling costs. It provides health care support to provinces, but with strings that stifle innovations that can improve efficiencies and reduce delivery costs.
We need the federal government to get out of health care, transfer tax points to the provinces and allow them to revamp service delivery as they see fit.
Where the federal government does have clear jurisdiction and responsibility, such as over the environment and pipeline construction it has mired itself in a gordian knot of consultation, ideology and bureaucracy that prevent it from pragmatic, useful decisions and leadership.
The current foray into international diplomacy through Lima group efforts to support a coup d��tat in Venezuela is a distraction from unattended responsibilities at home. Observing the government in action is like peering into a Kaleidoscope - the images are spectacular, sometimes even captivating but lack permanence and substance. Governance is about prudence, stability, safety, security, peace, individual freedoms, preserving the fundamentals of democratic representation and pragmatic decision making. Dull stuff to be sure, but that is the job description.
John Feldsted
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