The first glimmer of possible change has come with the election of Francois Hollande in France, because he campaigned on the basis that a growth strategy for Europe was essential, and he brought the topic up, apparently with considerable force, at his first meeting with Chancellor Merkel.
As the Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire put it to journalist Sylvia Patterson: "Saturday morning kids' TV has been ruined by pious, pontificating, revolting chefs", putting the topic up there with unregulated banking and zero-hours contracts as things that are wrong with modern Britain.
"I never thought this conversation would ever come up here," said Helen, who brought the topic up and continued with it for the next 20 minutes.
The typical course makes only around C$1.5m in annual revenue.But to bring this topic up now, as Canada grapples with budget cuts, could end up pitching other sports into the rough.
Throughticle originally appeared on VICE UK.
The sort of plan someone who has no background in a topic comes up with down the pub, before someone tells them it's preposterous, dangerous or just won't work.
In International Baccalaureate's HOTA we spend three months the first year studying slavery (starting in Africa then moving across the Atlantic to the Americas) then pick the topic up again with Civil War and Reconstruction.
