Worth a reminder

Does anybody think it's a coincidence that following the NDP budget deal, tuition increases are at their lowest level since the '70s?

Of course, credit goes to the provinces as well for making education more of a priority, both in adding funding and in regulating fees. And Calvert is leading the pack there:

(F)ees will remain virtually unchanged in Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan.

"For a couple of decades we have seen governments providing a diminishing portion of our operating costs ... and that's right across the country," said Peter MacKinnon, president of the University of Saskatchewan...

MacKinnon said the Saskatchewan government's support was such that his university was able to keep fees at last year's levels.

But more attention to the issue on the national stage, as well as the promise of added federal funding, has to be a huge part of the reason. To Jack and company, well done.