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Matthew Lau: University students should get loans, not gifts

Ontario's students prefer grants to loans. But adults who want 'Hands off my education' should be willing to pay that education's full cost

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Kids these days have become addicted to other people’s money. I don’t mean seven- and eight-year-olds, who really shouldn’t be expected to support themselves, but rather many older, larger kids, mostly in their late teens and twenties. Last week at Queen’s Park hundreds of them protested the Ontario government’s changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). A statue was defaced and two people arrested. Many others protested in Ottawa and other cities across the province.

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