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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Higher Fees Higher Debt: McGuinty's Reaching Higher Plan
This is a good example of what the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations despises about CFS. They think this is going too far and that providing friendly alternatives and meeting with politicians alone is the way forward. What happens when the Liberals promise you one thing and deliver more debt and higher fees? Notice how moral and righteous McGinty looks while in opposition, a very articulate and compelling speaker, but he betrayed students in Ontario. Strong political action, wide support, and an actual campaign with teeth are what's needed for the student movement. CFS can be very combative with the government of the day and I believe this gets results. This type of action scares students in CASA because it often endangers their career aspirations in the Liberal Party or in the civil service.
If it wasn't for CFS and campaigns like this, the Chretien Liberals would have deregulated university fees in 1995 and we'd all be paying back loans via Income Contingent Loan Repayment. Luckily CASA was a fledgling organization in 1995-1996, but one of the first thigns CASA did was shepherd through a resolution at their AGM in support of ICLR. Yeah debt-bondage over a life time, good call CASA.
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Out of curiosity, how would the Chretien Liberals have deregulated tuition fees when, you know, they're a provincial responsibility?
it's easy, the Chretien Liberals were seriously considering to stop sending block transfers for education and implement income contingent repayment, which is like student loans on steroids. ICR is basically a long-term repayment scheme which allows the federal government to divest completely from funding universities in order to fund the military instead, for example. ICR would be an income contingent loan repayment scheme which allows for students to take on massivve ammounts of debt that is to be paid back as a portion of income with interest ofcourse.
True, tuition levels are the responsibility of the provinces, but the federal government has a longstanding responsibility to fund universities and if they relieve themselves of this key responsibility it would radically alter the university system and necessitate the implementation of ICR and deregulation of fees. The provinces would have no choice.
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