Setting aside the awesome headache of working out a free tuition plan with all 10 provinces, there is reason to believe that this policy is a uniquely flawed instrument of social justice. The situation is much the same in the United States, home to the world’s most expensive post-secondary education. It won’t put all that many more low-income kids in universityThe free tuition camp might argue that free tuition is a regressive policy only because universities are currently packed with rich kids. Incidentally, this very problem was raised by the NDP as justification for free tuition. “Post-secondary education is one of the biggest things that creates opportunity, equality, and community-building skills,” writes the organization in a 2016 statement.

Source: National Post February 20, 2018 12:42 UTC