To be publicly funded institutions, colleges and universities require adequate funding to operate from the provincial and federal governments. However, over the past 15 years funding for post-secondary education in Ontario has dropped by more than 30 percent. Ontario has the second-lowest per-student funding in North America; second only to Alabama and dead last among Canadian provinces.
As money is removed the system, politicians and university and college administrators downloaded the costs of their policy decisions on students. Statistics show that with a decrease in funding, there has been an inverse effect on tuition fees. So, when governments pay less, students and their families are paying more.
Students are calling on the provincial government to increase Ontario's funding above the national average, thereby helping to stop funding colleges and universities off the backs of their own students.