Mr. Speaker, the government's stall on education funding over the past decade has caused the doubling of tuition and crippling student debt loads.
Grubbing for youth votes in the spring election, the Prime Minister promised to restore $8 billion to $9 billion to educational core funding. Yesterday's budget did no such thing.
Education core funding remains below the 1995 level. There is no tuition relief and students have to either die or become permanently disabled in order to qualify for debt relief.
Why the betrayal of Canada's students of yesterday, today and tomorrow?