Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he sensed anxiety amongst Georgian College students this morning at a Town Hall he hosted at the Barrie campus.
Morneau toured parts of the campus and then fielded questions from students in a wide variety of programs.
“What I heard today was a high level of anxiety,” he told reporters afterwards. “They demonstrated that the kind of cuts that the Provincial Conservative Party have put in place are having really negative impacts on them.”
Recently the Ontario PC’s slashed tuition rates by 10 per cent at publicly funded colleges and universities and also cancelled a program that provided free tuition to students from low-income families.
Morneau said he thinks students know that the Liberal Federal Government is creating jobs and opportunities for them.
“I’m sure they are worried that if the Conservatives ever were in power (Federally) they would take an approach to cuts and austerity that looks just like Doug Ford’s Ontario,” he said.
(Photo of Morneau (centre) touring Georgian College's Barrie Campus by Matthew Sitler)
