Finance committee  Absolutely. There's certainly a wellspring of information to further develop on this, which I think I'll put on the table here today for members of the committee. The Canadian Medical Association, as well as the Law Society of Upper Canada, has published reports previously abou

Finance committee  Absolutely. We obviously stood in opposition to that move. The fact that you are able to do that within our public post-secondary education system is just so telling as to why we need to have some kind of federal framework that legislates the public administration of our post-sec

Finance committee  Yes, in fact, it does. It represents a time when the deepest cuts to social spending in Canada were made. For all intents and purposes, we look back at that as being a time when post-secondary education was, for argument's sake, adequately funded. We also costed out what the exp

Finance committee  I would agree with you there. Looking at these numbers too, the $13.5 billion in accumulated...that's net of repayment. Actually what we saw was a regulatory change to the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act right before the beginning of the school year, because the amount be

Finance committee  I thank the member for the question. Very briefly, it's part of the founding principle of the student movement in Canada to respect the right of students in Quebec to self-organize. There are student unions that have been formed in the province that we certainly work in partners

Finance committee  While certainly we were part of the over 13,000 organizations that opposed the decision to get rid of the mandatory long-form census, in addition to this, we saw what seemed to be a casting aside of the willingness to collect data, which is interesting for the university sector.

Finance committee  I thank the committee for the opportunity to make the voice of students in Canada heard here today. The Canadian Federation of Students represents more than half a million students from colleges and universities across Canada and is Canada's largest and oldest national students'