Save Our Colleges
What’s happening at colleges?
Ontario colleges were built to provide local, affordable, and accessible job training in our communities.
But that system is on the brink of collapse, as the Ford government drains public funding from our college system. Per-student funding in Ontario is the lowest in Canada, just 56% of the national average.
It’s greenlit college admin to embrace risky and failed financial schemes like price-gouging international student tuition: a house of cards that has now collapsed.
The worst part? It’s a manufactured crisis.
Our communities pay the price of college cuts. We’ve lost over 650 programs and 10,000 jobs across the system – opportunities in our backyard are shrinking day by day, especially for non university-track learners.
So where is our money going?
Taxpayer money is being shifted away from campuses, that have graduated countless workers, towards subsidizing duplicate programs by private companies with little to no oversight.
No transparency, no accountability.
While our colleges are stripped of provincial funding, private companies are getting handouts.
Provincial funding for Ontario colleges has dropped 30% since 2013/2014, while funding for these private companies through the Skills Development Fund (SDF) has climbed by 800% since 2020 – with another $1 billion committed over the next three years.
This isn’t even mismanagement – this is a blatant attempt to gut our public education system.