"Our worst fears have come true with Rae's recommendation on
deregulated tuition," said Jesse Greener of the Canadian Federation of Students.
"It would mean a market-price approach to post-secondary education, just like a
commodity like a house or a car. We'd see a two-tiered system of rising fees at
some institutions and not at others - which is not fair."

Post-Secondary Students current and future: You NEED to fight this. Giving the institutions the right to set their own tutition fees will be the end of affordable post-secondary education in Canada. One of the things I learned, the hard way, at university, is that they are greedy and generally unconcerned with the welfare of undergraduate (and most graduate) students.

Case and point: I spent years listening to how my university couldn't "afford" to make necessary repairs and upgrades to student facilities because of crippling debt. This is the same university which magically pulled something like $10 million dollars out of it's hat for a football stadium that no one will EVER use (mark my words, this isn't Montreal, it'll never be filled more than a few times in it's first year). This is the same univerisity that sold it's soul to Pepsi for a quick buck, has systematically shut down most (if not all) of it's student pubs (and was incidentally caught bootlegging it's booze), and who's administration is consequently being sued by one of its student governements.

So, I urge you students, or parents, to take action. Let 'em know you're mad! Check out the Candian Federation of Students, of contact your University's student governement/federation for info on action I'm sure they planning.