Costs thousands of jobs and billions in government revenue. No Western country works harder to discourage its principal resource than Canada. It’s not even close.

The debate’s straightforward – some adults think their political agendas are more important than a child’s well being – we disagree. (Actually our language is a lot stronger than that.)

Given so many major issues from poverty, to the cost of living, to affordable housing and sustainable healthcare are economic and financial – who does it benefit that we don’t teach even the basics of economics and finance in school? Because it’s certainly not the students.

Why do labour leaders think the same policy prescriptions they’ve been pushing for decades are adequate for today’s challenges?