“[The government] will chip away at public institutions, be it health or education, so that private becomes more and more appetizing to the public,” Fevin said, pointing to last month’s removal of the word “public” from the name of school boards in the province.
He said now is not the time to make cuts to education, period.
“When you have a province that desperately needs innovation and diversification, forcing people away from post-secondary to a shrinking job market seems counter-intuitive …it’s our post-secondary students that are very often innovators and entrepreneurs,” he said.