Over at the Toronto Sun, columnist Christina Blizzard hits a lot of the right notes.
You have to wonder just how cynical college students must be about the hypocrisy of the establishment in this province.
Here we are, the old geezers, smug and in our careers. There they are, struggling to get where we are.
On the one hand, we tell them to get an education. Work hard. Suck up those tuition hikes. Pay your own way. Get a summer job to pay for your college fees.
And what do we do? We sit back and watch as a strike of college professors systematically removes (a) their ability to work hard; (b) their ability to get a summer job; and (c) their ability to afford a college education in the future.
[…] Colleges and Universities Minister Chris Bentley said yesterday he was going to pull both sides together for a “candid discussion.”
I’m hoping that’s bureaucratese for knocking their heads together—hard. That’s what they deserve. And while he’s at it, he should smack his boss, Premier Dalton McGuinty, upside the head. The premier left town right after the strike started. That’s not leadership. It’s cowardice. The legislature isn’t due back until next Thursday—budget day. So the students have no chance of being legislated back to school soon.
[…] We may tell you to work hard, get an education and get a job. What we really mean is this: Profs just want their fat-cat union salaries. Colleges just want your tuition fees.
And government? Well, it wants you to get a job so you can pay more in taxes.
That’s the hypocritical message to these young people: Pay up and shut up. Is it any wonder they’re angry?
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