Review the postsecondary education voting records and positions of Ontario’s main political parties.

OPC: Voted in favour [part of the budget bill] ONDP: Voted against the budget bill and released a statement on PBF: news/ford-tying-post-secondary-funding-political-directives-wrong-ndp OLP: Voted against the budget bill; however, the previous Liberal government was the one that began the work of shifting the funding model to a performance-based one. [...] OCUFA and other sector groups raised alarm over this provision on several accounts, including: the circumvention of proper process for the CCC application, as the government’s bill was introduced before PEQAB had made a recommendation and the Minister of Colleges and Universities had made a decision about it; the undermining effect of giving private institutions degree-granting privileges on the q. [...] ONDP: Against and introduced and got a motion passed in the Legislature condemning McVety’s hate speech and the government’s intention to grant university status to the CCC: . [...] Following advocacy on the part of the faculty associations at NOSM and Hearst as well OCUFA and other stakeholder groups, the government amended the acts to include language regarding the composition of Senate and Board; however, defining the powers of these two governing bodies were still left to regulations under the act. [...] OPC: Voted in favour [introduced the bill and subsequent amendment regarding composition of governing bodies] ONDP: Voted against and spoke in the Legislature and at committee level calling on the government to remove the provisions regarding NOSM and Hearst becoming independent institutions and consult the stakeholders involved.