Rote memory has been decimated in education and replaced with nonsense feel goodery terms like "inquiry"  and "global citizen". Translation: examine and explore your western privilege and feel guilty about it OK? Because we're working hard on removing borders and we don't want you to defend or be proud of your country. 

For reference, the first goal in the Ontario Geography curriculum is this:
• developing an understanding of the characteristics and spatial diversity of natural and human environments and communities, on a local to a GLOBAL scale;

Ctrl-F + global on that pdf, it's all over the place. See an agenda?