Category: Student Aid

As I said yesterday, need-based student aid in Canada is being eroded. We’re less likely than we used to be to spend education dollars on poorer students, and more likely to dish it out to kids from the middle-class (or higher). A couple of student groups – notably OUSA have valiantly tried to push back a bit. But when push comes to shove, they have a hard time opposing tax credits because their members all benefit. There is one group, though, which you

There is a vast, unannounced conspiracy in this country to gut need-based aid in favour of aid which is universal (i.e., non-need-based). Arguably, it’s been going on since about 1996, when Paul Martin threw a few bucks students’ way by raising the monthly tax credit for students in full-time studies from $80/month to $100/month. While need-based aid expenditures have gone up by a few hundred million since then – mostly due to the introduction of Millennium Scholarships in 1999-2000 –