And probably help start a brain drain.
Education has to have as low of a cost as possible. There are ways to limit abuse of the system, and really any sort of abuse would be limited to an extremely small minority even in a free system.
I don't think the PQ will do enough on that front. At least they will roll back the fee hike, but they will index it to inflation or some such. I think efforts need to be done to control wasteful spending by universities. There is a HUGE amount of corruption going on there. A McGill rector got a $1 million interest-free loan to buy himself a condo. In the 70s the UDM rector wanted a higher ceiling to a large room where his desk was but engineers said it was impossible to raise it further, there was nothing above it, so he had them lower the floor. He was also getting truck-loads of deliveries of alcohol to his house every week, in secret. Etc. All on the university's payroll.
Very little has been done on that end. It's similar to how things are done on Wall Street. Same mentality. They go around the world, see the offices of other rectors, and then want to show off by having equally as good or better. There's no serious oversight of spending.
Meanwhile students have to pay more and more to get access to something that actually benefits the whole economy the more people have access to it.
It's profit for the greedy at the detriment of profit for society at large.
The whole "you'll pay higher taxes" thing is a typical anti-public-education red herring.
At least they are supposed to do some big meeting with 30% of the seats for student bodies to establish the next-steps to be taken to address the above. We'll see how that goes. Being in a minority government at least might push the PQ to take this more seriously.
