[Cowperson]

I'd say a high school education is a right.

I wouldn't say post-secondary education is a right. It's an option.

It is in the interests of society to provide post-secondary options to its younger people as an investment in future productivity and, some might say, an investment in its unique culture. We can agree on that. That conversation could mean a trade school or an arts college.

I've seen it said before that the mistake the government of Quebec made was getting into a conversation with students in the first place, which had the unfortunate encouraging effect of validating their concerns and setting up post-secondary education as some kind of right.

Other provinces have it correct. They support post-secondary facilities to the extent that Society feels is affordable and useful to the future. They don't get into a lot of meaningful conversations with students, of all people, about budget decisions.

Not everyone gets to go. That's a fact of life.

In my first year of college, I commuted 1.5 hours one way in the morning, then 1.5 hours back the other way at the end of the day, living in a fairly illegal boarding house with 12 other guys in Dover, the worst sub-neighbourhood in Forest Lawn, the worst neighbourhood in Calgary.

It was all I could afford. Might have been nice to have more help but I made do with what I could at the moment.

Suck it up Buttercups!!!

Cowperson