Suppose there was a tax for being a woman throughout the country and that Quebec's tax was the lowest. The fact that the rest of Canada has a higher price for being a woman doesn't make the tax right in the first place!!!
This is of course an extreme example but I'm just using it to demonstrate how comparing the price between Quebec and the ROC is not the proper way to assess the rightness of making high education expensive. The philosophy behind the movement is that higher education should be accessible to all.
Most of you folks in the ROC seem to believe in this idea that money buys you the right to get educated. Some of us in Quebec don't buy that. I personally would rather payback my education through the income taxes I'll pay throughout my life. Seems to make more sense than starting life with a ridiculous debt that only benefits financial institutions.
Those that can pay outright, do. Those that can't, get a student loan.
Doesn't that make post secondary education accessible to all? It is
not free, nor is it compulsory. It's a choice that some choice to
indulge themselves of in the hope of a better future income, leaving
one the ability to repay the student loan, if needed, with a net gain
in the long run.
It's good to see that these protests are peaceful without damage to
public property, so that these students can win over the hearts and
minds of those that they choose to supplement (financially) their
post secondary educations thought the tax system, I guess,
so that their student debts upon graduation can remain a
fraction of what other Canadians would pay.
If this isn't the case, it would be a case of biting the hand that feeds
them (financially) which would be a sign of utter stupidity, leaving
me to question their levels of intelligence to be able to function
in the real world and actually repay a student loan, even if it's only
a portion of what other Canadians would deal with.
It's outrageous that any of us would have to pay for a post secondary
education, that is a choice,
and not a right, even in this day and age.
Now
clean drinking water should a right and free to all somehow,
even though that doesn't come without a cost....but we all (I assume)
pay for that privilege or they turn off our individual taps. This doesn't
have the punch of a "woman tax," but it's the closest analogy I could
think of on short notice.
And out of curiosity, how do you (or anyone) decide that anything is, or
isn't expensive without comparing it's cost to something else?
