quebec protest and tuition hikes. history.

http://www.grpseo.org/99_00AnnualReport.html

Increasing education costs

All costs associated with post secondary education have increased while available funding has not kept pace.

The following chart shows university tuition increases of over 300% over a three-year period.

College tuition increases of almost 300% over a ten-year period in Ontario are shown.

(...we can expect other related costs to make up for this seemingly low rate of tuition increase. For example, we can expect increasing and new "mandatory" student fees, such as technology fees.)

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http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/071018/dq071018b-eng.htm

Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs are paying on average 2.8% more in tuition fees for the 2007/2008 academic year. This compares with a 3.2% increase for the previous year, and average annual increases of 4.3% during the last decade.

Canadian full-time undergraduate students are paying an average of $4,524 in tuition fees for the 2007/2008 academic year, up from $4,400 the year before. In 1998/1999, they paid $3,064 on average, and in 1988/1989, they paid $1,185.

During the 1990s, the undergraduate tuition fees increased at an annual average rate of more than 9.6%. Since 2000, increases have slowed to an average of 3.8%.

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D - notice anything? If you deregulate tuition increases, the governments NEVER just index it to inflation.

Charest's education minister, Line Beauchamp, refused to sit down with student protestors unless they drop their key demands of a tuition freeze or free education.

I, for one, hope they don't acquiesce. They know full well what awaits them if they do - the same 'treatment' other Canadians U (and college) students have received.

Aside - I read up on CEGEP "junior colleges" in Quebec. The public ones amount to a free year of post-secondary education, compared to the rest of Canada.