As we have just witnessed south of the border, acceptance may not be so alive and well.  A  Democratic country should have Universal education from grades K-12 children. This is where students learn their civics, history as well as how to be tolerant and acceptance of others. When out children learn integration in schools; learn with the handicapped, the ESL students, the Muslim student, the Sikh student, the child who celebrates Hannukah and the child who attends the Baptist church et al, then we have a country where people accept diversity of others. Canada has been a model of that behaviour. So  BC's,  funding has to return to the schools to promote these principles of democracy, and the funding needs to be taken away from schools which do not promote the tenants of democracy. Then the BC schools will be the best in the world. Our younger generations would grow up, having learned to accept and love each other as well as  knowledge and lifelong learning skills.