allthecanadianpolitics:mattykinsel:allthecanadianpolitics:Niki Ashton for Prime Minister, please.If
allthecanadianpolitics:mattykinsel:allthecanadianpolitics:Niki Ashton for Prime Minister, please.If you’d like Niki Ashton to become NDP leader, you must buy a membership before August 17th.Read Niki Ashton’s full economic justice platform here.I assume “tuition free post-secondary” Ed refers to public colleges and universties? (Mine is Catholic, and therefore private, and yeah.)Also not to be a Tory but where’s the money going to come from, realistically, for this? It’s a LOT of money - plus, wouldn’t interest on student loans make pragmatic sense? The government needs more and more $ for student loans and such as the population increases, or more people enter universities. I don’t know, I don’t have any sources for this but it was just the first thing that came into my head and yeah. Thanks !Niki Ashton has released a comprehensive tax plan to generate billions of dollars of spending:Niki Ashton releases strongest Canadian federal social democratic tax platform in a generationNiki Ashton: Fair Taxes for a Just Society.And free tuition isn’t actually that expensive. It would only cost the Federal government 3.59 billion dollars per year for free tuition to every student in Canada. (x) This is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. The 2016 federal government budget was $317.1 billion dollars. Are we really saying that we can’t afford to spend 1.13% of the Federal budget on providing free tuition? -- source link
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