Student organizations want to see the $912 million put into the Canada Emergency Student Benefit.
Students are calling for the grant to be dissolved and for the funds to be given to other existing programs. They’re asking for: by three eligibility periods, and increase the monthly amount to $2,000;
Greg Sibley, one of the lead organizers from Don’t Forget Students, told HuffPost Canada that even without the WE scandal, the CSSG was a “poorly conceived” program to begin with. For Sibley, the advocacy work is personal, too. He graduated with a master’s degree in November 2019, and students who graduated in December or later are eligible for the CESB. He’s also not eligible for the“I actually qualify for zero dollars of federal aid, despite being almost five months into a pandemic,” he said.
“I think [our demands] are the necessary investments in Canada’s young people and students and recent graduates to make sure that recovery goes ahead,” Sibley said. “It is a bit of a cliché to say but it happens to be true: That if Canada’s young people fall through the cracks here and don’t succeed, our recovery is also not gonna succeed.”
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