What do you do when the idiotic provincial government makes changes that do benefit you and your children but also damage the educational opportunities for the poorest in the province? Our Premier announced a reduction of tuition fees for Ontario Students. Cool, with possibly two kids attending post-secondary education within the next decade, that’s literally music to my ears. I actually thought “wow, that doofus did something good” but of course that surprise was quickly replaced with disgust when I’d found out the rest of the changes he’d made.
While he’s reducing tuition by up to 10%, he’s eliminating grants for lower-income students and removing the grace period that the loans need to be paid back. While a Post-Secondary student could continue to focus on their studies and work to get a job in their respective field after graduation, that’s no longer the case as they immediately need to start repaying their loan once they graduate.
The question is: do I complain, protest, try to affect change? The changes they’ve made directly affect my children in a positive way, shouldn’t I just be happy with that? Brings me back to the time where the Prime Minister (who I support) changed the child tax laws ending my monthly payment while at the same time, doubling or tripling the payment to the lowest income families. I had a coworker ask me if I was mad and I just shrugged. I didn't need it, and I bet it went a long way to help out those other families so I was just fine with it.
