Is there a link between this virtual shortage and the fact that in Quebec and many provinces tuition fees have been frozen for many years? Many universities, such as Laval University in Quebec City, concentrate on undergraduate students. They don't give a hoot about graduate research because it's too expensive. Their funding has been cut, their tuition fees have been frozen, and they have no real motivation to spend all the money that they still didn't get from Mr. Phillipson on things that would be very costly. Is there a link there?
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