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Originally Posted by MattyC
You're right, so why are they doing it?
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To balance budgets. Both on the University's side, and on the province's side. Costs go up, and there is nothing they can really do. This isn't USofA with private schools making monsterous profits off $100k+ undergrads.
The Uni's have increased costs and requested to pass that cost onto the students. The gov't (who has no money to cover these increases for them) approves their increase in tuition.
In a perfect world, AB gov't would be flush with cash and could subsidize further (ala Quebec), but unless you want a sales tax to balance the budget, it isn't happening.