Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Human Resources Development insists on trivializing the negative impact his social reform will have on all students in Canada.
He is cutting transfers to the provinces for post-secondary education, while suggesting an option that is likely to increase debt levels among Canadian students.
Does the minister realize that what he is offering Canadian students in his reform package is the prospect of leaving university with an average debt of $50,000 and having to make monthly payments of $600 for ten years, to pay back a debt that thanks to the minister will have increased 100 per cent?