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Education & Training

Post-secondary education platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Conservative policies on Post-secondary education.

NDP

Over the long term, work with provinces and territories to cap and reduce tuition feeds, building towards making post-secondary education part of a public education system.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Post-secondary education.

Green

  • Allocate $10 billion to post-secondary and trade school supports.
  • Make college and university tuition free for all Canadian students.
  • Remove the 2% cap on increases in education funding for Indigenous students.
  • Forgive extant student debt held by the federal government.

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Make college and university tuition free for all Canadian students. This would be financed by redirecting existing spending on bursaries, tuition tax credits, saved costs of administering the student loan system, and the hundreds of millions of dollars of student loan defaults written off every year. Tuition scholarships provided by colleges and universities can be redirected to offset other student costs.

Tie funding in federal-provincial transfers to universities, providing more to universities and colleges with a measurable focus on student-professor contact, mentorship, policies of inclusion and tenure track hires.

Remove the two per cent cap on increases in education funding for Indigenous students and ensure all Indigenous youth have access to post-secondary education.

Forgive the portion of existing student debt that is held by the federal government.

From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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We don't have any PPC policies on Post-secondary education.

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