Let me start.
First of all, to the credit of the current government and the previous government and the provinces, Canada has started to reinvest in post-secondary education. We just about killed the beast off in the 1980s and early 1990s, but we have fresh wind with that. We have a couple of weaknesses in graduate programs and the like, but we're fairly strong.
I don't think student tuition fees themselves are the problem, but you absolutely can't allow financing to be a restraint to somebody going. I would urge you to look at a proposal that was kicked around previously in Canada, but we never went with it, and that was income-contingent repayable loans. The student gets the money up front and pays it back according to income. That will get rid of the financial burden at the beginning of it. That does need to be complemented with low-income grants, but the government has moved in that direction, as most of the provinces have as well.