Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to comment on the fairness of the provision.
The fairness of this provision can only be understood if we look at our students as not only working for themselves, for their personal aggrandisement or for their selfish interest in the future. If our thesis is that the students of today would only earn for themselves and for nobody else, not for society, of course society would have no obligation to them.
The students of today, I should remind the hon. member, do not only work for themselves. Their success is the success of our nation. Upon them the future of the country depends. To say they will have the education, the income and therefore should pay for themselves alone is to forget that the students of today will be the ones contributing to our national economy in the future.
They will be the ones contributing to the social cohesion of our country.
To forget those very important principles is to overlook the very essence of education itself. I therefore submit that when the hon. member reflects on these principles he will come quickly to the conclusion that there is no merit to the question he posed.