The Ontario government announced that it would not fund the university despite the fact that it already exists and that so much work has been done, as its rector told you. For all practical purposes, the government's decision spells the end of the Université de l'Ontario français.
This situation is an example of the irreparable harm I was talking about. Based on the roadmap detailing everything it needed to do in preparation for opening its doors in 2020, the university was on track. If it does not open its doors in 2020 as planned, many young Ontario francophones who are now in Grade 11 and who were planning to go study at the Université de l'Ontario français will have to go to either bilingual or anglophone universities. The painfully clear message they will all be getting is that it may not be worth continuing to work so hard to live their lives in French.