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Interpreting the Manifesto Commitments

Morning all.  Today’s the day where I try to sum up and compare what the various parties are promising in different areas and what that likely means for the sector.  For greater detail on individual party platforms for PSE, you may wish to consult the previous analyses: Conservative, NDP, Liberal and Green. Let’s start with the issue of transfers to provinces.  In previous years, but particularly in the two decades following the major cutbacks embedded in the Liberal government’s 1995

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September 16, 2021 No Comments

2021 PSE Election Manifestos – The Liberal Party

This is the fourth and final election manifesto analysis of this godforsaken election.  You can find previous analyses of the Conservative Party platform here, the New Democratic Party platform here and the absolute flaming garbage fire of a Green Party platform here.  I am not doing the Bloc because their platform is “Ottawa should go pound sand” (for which I have some sympathy, but it doesn’t make for a good blog post), and I don’t do the PPC because their

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September 14, 2021 No Comments

2021 PSE Platforms – The Green Party

This is the third in the series of party platform analyses.  The analysis of the Conservative platform analysis is available here, and that for the New Democratic Party platform is here.  Today’s analysis is the Green Party, which is every bit the piece of dramatic flaming ludicrousness we have come to expect from them. I will start by being as nice as I can possibly be.  <deep breath>  There’s a somewhat odd reference to removing the 2% cap in post-secondary education funding for

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September 13, 2021 1 Comment

2021 PSE Platforms – the New Democratic Party

Last week, I analysed the Conservative Party of Canada platform.  This week, I am doing the New Democratic Party’s platform, which is available in its entirety here.    I find this manifesto disappointing because apparently the only thing New Democrats care about is making higher education cheaper.  Not better.  Not more adapted to helping Canadian business compete or Canadian society to become smarter.  Just cheap, cheaper, cheapest! In fairness, that’s at least partly because this manifesto is peculiarly written, in the sense that

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September 9, 2021 1 Comment

The Childcare Debate and PSE (part 2)

Yesterday, we looked at the state of childcare policy in Canada, at least in the event of a continued Liberal government.  Today I want to walk through what the precedent set by the new childcare accords might mean for higher education. Many, including myself, have long maintained that the idea of the federal government coming in creating a national policy on tuition – whether it be “lower than at present” or zero – was essentially impossible because it involves paying provinces

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September 8, 2021 3 Comments
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