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'It is astray accepted that the future prosperity of Canada rests on having a well-educated workforce. Yet, the be to disciples of post-secondary training has risen chop-chop over the last few years as government financial tailing has dropped dramatic tout ensembley. Since the early 1980s, public reenforcement of post-secondary cultivation in Canada has g nonp beil down by 30 per centime. In addition, across Canada, about 1. 1 million full-time assimilators were enrolled in post-secondary institutions in 2001, still thousands have been turned away because of lack of infinite or they have non applied for admittance because the comprise of tutelage is besides high for them.\r\nOntario has the second-highest training fees in the country. On average, development fees mess cost an undergraduate student close to $5,000 per year. Over 80 per cent of Ontarians believe tuition fees argon too high, even with the current freeze. More than 90 per cent of students voted to red uce tuition fees. Yet Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has inform that tuition fees ordain be increasing by up to 36 per cent over the conterminous four years. Ontarios post-secondary system, which has 18 universities and 24 community colleges, receives the terminal per-student funding in the country.\r\nFor the roughly part, reductions in university funding by both the federal and bucolic governments relieve higher university tuition. The federal cash transfer payments for education and training have been cut by $7 measuring stickion since 1993. In the 2000-2001 federal budget, only a $600 million adjoin was allocated for both health and education, with no real requirement that any of the money be spent on education. But the Minister of finance was able to find $55 billion in tax cuts for corporations, the banks and wealthy Canadians.\r\nThe money is available, provided the incorrectly choices are being made. Students are now paying(a) higher fees for a lower quality educ ation †less access to libraries, less lab equipment, reductions in tenured teaching staff and support staff. nurture fees are a regressive form of taxation. In 1997, Canadians spent 19 percent more on their household budget than in 1996 on education, tho their total household spending did not increase. This does not mean that families are paying more for education, but it does mean that hey are sacrificing other expenses in golf club to meet the cost of an education. The government is attempting to deflect individual retirement account over tuition increases by pointing to changes in student guardianship. But the fact is the tuition fee increase over the next four years will effectively wipe out more than the student financial assistance investment to be phased in over the same period. In fact, for every long horse invested in student aid more than a dollar will be clawed back through tuition fee increases. In effect, students are borrowing to finance their own student ai d program.\r\nA post-secondary education is now out of surpass for poorer Canadians. Those who sess get to college and university often end up with debts on graduation, which can range anywhere from $30,000 for a four-year undergraduate program to $60,000 for those doing graduate studies. Professional faculties can lead to much higher debts: annual tuition at the University of Torontos medical school, for example, was more than $16,000 by 2003, and one-half of Canadas 16 medical schools were charging more than $10,000 a year.\r\nIt can all add up to a six-figure bill after graduation †one observer suggested its one reason why doctors are opting for specialties rather than family medicate because the pay for the former is much higher. Its been estimated that by 2020, a four-year university education will cost about $90,000. In addition to average annual increases, students are set about with deregulated fees. Deregulation of fees happens when a provincial government abandons all guide field of operations and legislation and lets individual institutions have complete image of tuition fee levels.\r\nDeregulation represents one of the most serious threats to accessibility of post-secondary education, since it always leads to massive tuition fee increases. Dentistry now costs up to $30,000 a year. Even with the maximum federal and provincial student loans and the maximum private student line of credit, this fee cant be met. Deregulation is not a new tuition fee structure, but the downloading of the cost of education onto the backs of students. Deregulation is not limited to university fees.\r\n lodge college programs in Ontario vary from $1,700 to over $8,000 a year. It is persecute for the public to believe, and even worse for governments to promote the romance that fees can be raised without affecting accessibility. In a study released by the Maritimes Provinces Higher procreation Commission in 1997, it was reported that â€Å"there are clear indica tions of a systemic social inconsistency affecting accessibility, with students from lower income backgrounds being disadvantaged in their ability to meet the financial demands of attending post-secondary institutions. â€Å"\r\n'