Ontario Election. Vote LIBERAL!

Track record:

In a move students are calling a “huge step forward,” Queen’s Park will keep its 5 per cent limit on post-secondary fee hikes for two more years, and beef up student aid to more than 188,000 students.


The announcement Monday morning by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities tackles many student concerns by raising the weekly loan limit for a single student to $150 a week from $140 a week and more than doubling the amount of money – to $103 from $50 – that students may earn each week without being penalized on their student loan.
The move delays for at least two more years any dramatic surge in tuition some had feared might kick in when the current five-year tuition cap expired this spring.
Moreover, the provincial government has added a $500 grant for part-time students with financial need, and delayed for six months after graduation any interest charges on a student loan.

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Ominous trends in Quebec (and California- they'd rather build prisons):

http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110315/mtl_mcgill_110315?hub=MontrealHome

Quebec has the lowest tuition rates in Canada and a decade-long freeze on fee hikes, but McGill has been pushing back.


Last September, McGill began charging $29,500 in annual tuition for its two-year MBA program _ nearly nine times higher than provincial limit that caps tuition at around $3,400 per year.

D - imagine a university degree as a second (prior) mortgage in size. With no promise of payoff. Ouch.

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http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/NewsBlog/DailyWireDetails.aspx?id=Subject%3A+30%25+Off+Undergraduate+Tuition+In+Ontario

We're moving Ontario forward, together, by keeping the cost of postsecondary education within everyone's reach. Here's what you need to know:




•We're creating a tuition grant that takes 30% off the average undergraduate tuition in Ontario, keeping the cost of postsecondary education affordable for lower- and middle-income families.

•Our tuition grant will save families $1600 per student in university and $730 per student in college, annually.

•We're also creating 60,000 more postsecondary education spaces, in addition to the 200,000 spaces we've already created.

•We're also building three new, leading-edge undergraduate campuses so students can study closer to home.

•The Harris-Hudak PCs cut postsecondary education by $435 million, slashed student aid by 41%, allowed fees to skyrocket by 67% and provided no help to middle-income families.

•The last NDP government promised to eliminate tuition, then said they'd freeze it — but all they ever did was raise it by 50%.

•During tough economic times, instead of supporting students as we did, the NDP made them bear the brunt with a 48% cut to student aid.

The Hudak PCs have a $14 billion hole in their platform, which means they won't help middle-class families afford postsecondary education, and will make deep cuts that send tuition through the roof, again. The current NDP platform barely mentions education but their legacy is clear — they were the party that eliminated up-front student grants, before we brought them back.

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D - 'nuff said. See my rant on my public transit blog on the fossil fuel cuts.

http://k-w-bike-walk-bus.blogspot.com/