They feel it's an attempt to manipulate children, that children's rights can undermine parents' rights, and that the vote amounts to an Elections Canada interference in the provincial jurisdiction over education. That angers Maple Ridge parent Laurie Geschke, who urged her school board to disallow the vote. She said the plan is manipulative because the views of students as young as six will later be used by adults as a rationale for new spending. The vote as constituted is an affront to children and their parents. The results of this so-called election will be cranked about by the special interest lobbyists to justify demanding that the government intrude further into family life, create more social programs and raise our taxes to pay for it all.
Education is a provincial responsibility under the Canadian constitution.
But whatever these rights mean, they mean something. Social engineers will interpret the results of the election in a manner which best suits their agendas, and if that isn't manipulation of our kids I don't know what is. All this of course, without ever having asked parents' permission for the children to participate. But then, everything is about children's rights and nobody cares about parents anymore. This document also informs children that government will ensure they survive and develop while guarding them from harm and abuse.