Mr. Desroches can speak to Quebec. I'm not qualified to do that. I can speak to Ontario.
The reality is that going back to the ending of the block funding formula from the federal government to the provinces in 1995, the federal share of funding that is going to post-secondary institutions has declined steadily for 25 years. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has called for the introduction of some form of a block funding formula dedicated to post-secondary institutions.
At my university, if I'm not mistaken, the level of public funding at the moment is about 25% of the total operational cost of the university. The rest comes from tuition, from external research grants and from philanthropy. It doesn't come from the public sector, and very little of that 25% comes from the federal government.
If the federal government is truly worried about how post-secondary education is being financed in this country and how affordable it is for students at all levels, then they need to take a long, hard look at how the shared cost formulas between the federal government and the provinces have changed over the last 27 years, because the net result of that change has been a decline in share of federal transfers that end up supporting post-secondary education.