In Ontario, the provincial election battle ground always comes down to education. According to the Toronto Star poll, education costs is the most important issue for the people with 26% with money for the cities and taxes in 22%. Therefore, all the parties need to worry about education more than other issues.

As the election campaign is rolling, I am finding more and more evidence that NDP seems to be the only party with ideas on education. They seem to be the only one that atleast tries to connect with the university students. Howard Hampton promises tuition fee rollback to 2003-2004 academic year before McGuinty took over. NDP also promises a tuition fee freeze helping the university students save $460 every year. Tuition fee freeze is important because we are paying too much in university. Provinces such as Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Québec and Newfoundland and Labrador already introduced tuition fee freeze.

I still remember McGuinty in TV breaking one after another promise. When he was in the opposition he talked “on behalf on 1000s of students” but then when he took over he decided to side with the corporations forgetting students. This video is correct showing that during his time the university was not this expensive.

Not just education, he broke his promise in raising taxes and many other sectors. He does not deserve a second chance in my opinion. Then we have the tories supporting public faith based schools. I think if the education is public then all the public should receive the same education. Put this money into public board rather than faith schools.

It’s actually good that we are going to have a minority government with NDP holding the balance of power. Therefore, a lot of NDP policies will get introduced in the budget.