Of course, the rest of the country, in it’s own, varied ways has been having such a debate.

The answers, actually, have been found. There has been a lot of research on affordability and accessibility in post-secondary education.

In short: tuition is not a significant barrier. That it remains a focus of the student movement is commentary on the sophistication and relevance of the student movement. (I’m generalizing, here, some student leaders and groups are pursuing more productive policies).

However, Wild Rose has little policy or legislative history. They’re a new party and there’s relatively little to judge them on. I can understand why the all-too-honest admissions of some candidates will garner more attention than usually they should. This is especially true if there is any sort of trend and no real backlash against these candidates.

Smith was commendable in her everyone-has-a-right-to-their-opinions response, but it isn’t particularly re-assuring when you have little reason to believe whatever policy prescriptions they have put forward.

Further, Smith may be progressive in the views you mention, but if her caucus isn’t and she’s not going to rule with an iron fist, then she could simply be overrun by the rest of the candidates.

There is, no doubt, a little too much emphasis on personalities and paranoia, but Wild Rose has always had a reputation (deserved or not) of being a wingnut party. If they don’t have the discipline or self-awareness to be especially careful at living up to that reputation, that is an indictment, of sorts.

Your comment stirred the idea in me, so I thought it only fair to give it its due.

This seemed like a rather petulant comment for what was, essentially, a compliment (if a little pointed).

To put in short, I think he is merely pointing out how you are disjointed or attempt to do such, about the relationship that the Canadian Forces and Monarchy actually have with one another.

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I believe the argument that the union put forward was that many companies have business related to government activity, and these firms will suffer, leading to layoffs. There’s no doubt that a lot of firms rely on the government for their business, but, again, even if that dries up, it doesn’t mean the economy will grind to a halt.

Ten random responses I didn’t feel like developing into full comments. :-)