What started all this was the multiculturalism doctrine introduced by P. E. Trudeu, after which diversity became politically correct (but not in Quebec, where the French language emphasis keeps out the riff-raff) and which is why Quebec is a nation and the ROC isn't really.  Another problem is  the fact that the vast majority of primary school teachers are not male, if that is an acceptable word, and the purpose of schooling is more to do with socialization (read feminization) than education. When Grade XIII departmentals were dropped in Ontario, education standards were reduced in favour of massive expansion, for political reasons, of the universities and the universities were reduced to expensive high schools, except for the hard disciplines. That's why there is so much resentment about people who succeed, such as doctors and the 1%; the soft disciplined graduates mostly fail in their careers unless they get a teaching job in the elementary schools.