The Fraser Institute. That's just direct handouts. That's taking money that the citizens of Alberta paid into their government for things like healthcare and EDUCATION that are instead being given to for profit corporations. When you include tax breaks and other incentives it's likely much higher.
You said that they needed more teachers and more EAs. That takes money. Being paid a lot more makes you willing to deal with a lot more. The old, "They don't pay me enough for this shit" refrain comes to mind. If they took the $30 billion they are handing out in corporate welfare and put it into education it would go a LONG way to solving the problem.
It is very simple. If you don't pay people enough or their working conditions aren't good enough they won't work for you. You may only think that the work is worth $X but if people won't work for anything less than $Y then you're going to have trouble getting people to work for you if you only pay $X.
The Alberta government could stop spending $30 billion on corporate welfare and instead spend that paying teachers what they are worth. Of course, ideologues like Smith don't like high quality fact based public education because better educated people tend to be more liberal.
They have removed all the books that aren't about straight, cis, white Christian men so who fucking cares. We'll build our own library with all the banned books and let anyone who wants to read them sign them out for free.
MAGAts seeth with resentment at being told that they are backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They want to hurt people because they have been hurt. They never think about improving themselves or not being backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They love Donald Trump because he hurts people. MAGA had a hardon for cruelty.
They committed to funding 3000 more teachers but finding them and more Educational Assistants is going to be tough.
It isn't that people don't want to be teachers at EAs. It's that they don't want to be teachers and EAs for shit wages with little to no support and huge classes. If you want people to become teachers giving them good working conditions, good benefits, and good pay.
It's really very simple.
You have to pay people what they think their work is worth or they won't work for you.
Tankies gonna tank. I was banned for impure thoughts. I cared more about being banned from r/soapmaking. I may just block the entirety of Tankiestan since they are so anti-free speech (unless it's hate speech which is A-OK!)
It's funny that you keep editing your comments to try to make them better.
Emphasis on "try".
I thought that the amount of damage was interesting.
Seconded.