Students sue Ontario colleges for $200M

by E Wayne Ross on June 8, 2007

Toronto Star: Students sue Ontario colleges for $200M

As a child-care worker, Dan Roffey knows the importance of teaching kids to play by the rules.

That’s why he was outraged to learn that not only were Ontario colleges “cheating” each student out of hundreds of dollars annually in extra fees he claims are expressly forbidden under a tuition freeze imposed by Queen’s Park, but that the province “turned a blind eye.”

“I think students will be wondering, as I am, what kind of message our college administrators are sending students when they tell me on the one hand that we’ll fail if we cheat on an assignment, but at the same time we catch them cheating on our fees,” Roffey, 26, told a news conference yesterday.