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Federal Funding Cuts
For more than two decades, the Canadian Federation of Students has called for the establishment of national standards for post-secondary education and research. The federation proposes that a Ministry of post-secondary education and research be established and that a post-secondary Education Act, modeled on the principles of the Canada Health Act, be implemented a Ministry, a dedicated transfer payment, and corresponding legislation will provide the federal government with a coherent and enforceable national vision for post-secondary education and research.
Since the introduction of the Canada Health and Social Transfer in 1996, accountability and transparency for federal post-secondary educaton transfers have diminished. The situation did not improve with the creation of the Canada Social transfer in 2004. In fact, there are currenly no federal standards to guide provincial post-secondary education spending.
During the 2006 federal election campaign, Stephan Harper's Conservatives promised to create a dedicated transfer payment for post-secondary education. In Febuary 2006, a summit on post-secondary education and research organised by Canada's premiers called for the reinvestment of the $4.9 billion that has been cut from annual federal transfers to the provinces since 1993.
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