Mr. Speaker, there are many different parts of that response that I could pick up on, but let us talk about what is in the budget, very concretely.
Page 217 of the budget states:
Budget 2025 announces the government’s intention to propose legislative and regulatory amendments to address integrity issues related to private educational institutions by generally limiting access to the Canada Student Grant for Full-time Students to students attending public educational institutions and not-for-profit private institutions within Canada.
In effect, that excludes career colleges.
As the economy changes in different ways, career colleges are often very nimble, developing new programs to meet new challenges and providing students with very practical vocational skills. The government's approach is to say that anyone who studies anything at a university can have access to these grants, yet, for students in those kinds of institutions who study for specific career-oriented skills that likely are skills that they can train for only in the career college institutions, the government is saying “no dice”. Why is the government attacking these kinds of institutions and students?