Public post-secondary institutions are assets to our provinces, writes Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Ontario has now hit rock bottom. Dead last among all provinces in Canada when it comes to funding post-secondary institutions. Dead last when it comes to the contribution to operating budgets. Dead last when we look at the fraction of the provincial GDP that we spend on post-secondary education. Doug Ford has made it harder for students in Ontario to afford higher education. Less than six months after forming the government, Ford cut OSAP funding by 40 percent and eliminated the six-month interest-free grace period for loan repayments.
In 2017, the then-Ontario Liberal government directed public colleges to shut down their partnerships with private career colleges based on an external review of these deceptive arrangements. So let’s put all these pieces together. Ford deliberately underfunded our public institutions, limited domestic students’ access to post-secondary education, slashed OSAP, and allowed subpar private diploma mills to overwhelm local housing markets and exploit innocent international students.
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