The Chronicle: Canada’s Budget Includes Need-Based Grants, but No Increase for Student Aid
Canadian students, at long last, will get a federal need-based grant program next year. A new $350-million program, announced on Tuesday in the Conservative minority government’s latest budget, will replace Canada’s Millennium Scholarships program, which ends in 2009.
On the whole, however, the budget left higher-education officials with mixed feelings. While it includes money for some new programs, existing problems — such as more core funds for universities and colleges — were ignored.
Although there had been speculation in recent weeks that the opposition would reject the budget and thus trigger a spring election, that’s not going to happen. The opposition leader Stéphane Dion, although critical of the document, said his party would not vote against it.
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