When I first raised this with Minister Hajdu at committee—and I've raised this issue with her on a number of occasions—she said something like what you're hearing from them, that there's the possibility of exemptions to this policy. I don't understand why they would blanket cut off students at private, for-profit institutions and then propose to only partially fill in that hole through piece-by-piece exemptions that every program has to lobby and apply for.
Universities don't have to go through that process. Every student at a university, regardless of the program they're studying and how job-relevant it is or isn't, will have access to these grants. You're in the position of needing to make the case for these exemptions.
Meanwhile, I asked her whether there were any other exemptions planned or contemplated. At the time, she had no response to that.
Very briefly, what position does it put you in? At certain kinds of institutions, these grants are available, and, at others, you have to make the case, painstakingly, every time, for why there should be an exemption.
