In her article Diane Francis makes some comparisons. I'll ignore military spending as a proportion of GDP since less than half of NATO actually meets the 2% goal. Instead let's look at the other two comparisons.

https://twitter.com/jmt_18325/status/1403228993487130624

She lists a number of countries that she says are doing better than Canada: China, India, South Korea, Russia, Australia, Ukraine, but at the end she says that GDP/ hour worked is the best way to compare. I agree with her, that's a great way to assess, but it breaks her argument.

"The capacity to critically think emerges from a solid foundation of well-sequenced factual background knowledge."

That's... not true.

#ableg #abed

calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… Dr. Mrazik is making two of statements in that single sentence:
1) critical thinking *is a result of* background knowledge
2) specifically well-sequenced knowledge (and in context he means chronologically sequenced)
#ableg #abed