Not content to muddle and befuddle education policies for people who are actually from New Brunwsick, our Minister of Education Kelly Lamrock has now entered into immigration policy. And dare we say, the self-styled "Genius at Large" at the cabinet table is handling immigration services with all the same tact and grace as he uses on French immersion and teacher contract negotiations.
The Worst Government Ever has announced that they are putting on an extra $250 fee for foreigners who apply to have their kids attend our schools. It's not that being a foreign student is already a free ride, in fact non-residents pay the full shot for a year of NB education (often ranked as the 9th or 10th worst in the country) if they make it in. The problem, as defined by the Genius at Large, is that so many foreigners are sending in applications that it is a burden on the school system.
Never mind that we are never told just how many applications there are - it could be 10 applications per year that the bureaucrats find exhausting. What we know for sure is that even if the new fee keeps all the unnecessary applications out of the queue it will still mean that the only people being punished will be the honest citizens.
That's right. Instead of charging fees to the companies who send in applications to multiple schools "just to play the odds" as Lamrock describes it, we will instead be making the legitimate and successful applicants pay the fees while the ones playing the odds just take their business (and the students we need) to another province. As an added bonus, the honest applicants will also have to pay a new $150 "orientation fee" as well - but the Genius at Large has so far failed to explain how that is going to make the system more efficient.
If we here at the NB Conservative were more cynical we might suggest that the Minister's public explanation and the actual reason for putting on the new fees don't seem to match up. But since the person doing the explaining is a Genius, he has to be logical too, doesn't he?
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Surely, I'm not alone in thinking that Lambrock reminds one of Alan Rock (famous for that 2 million $ gun registry that ended up costing taxpayers 2 billion$)
ReplyDelete1. far left liberal (some say socialist)
2. of course..highly educated
3. arrogant (the common denomator for highly educated socialists)
4. he is convinced he should be leader because he is smater than the current leader
5. completely out of touch.
It is time for the people of Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak to do themselves and the rest of the province a favour by not returning Lamrock to the legislature.