John Robson: The Cascading Chain of Policy Disasters Hitting Universities

Commentary Universities increasingly furnish a worrying case study in the disintegration of the Canadian public sector. Including that instead of beacons of intelligent thought on this and other problems, they’ve become bastions of dogmatic ineptitude. And that we aren’t even vaguely surprised at the muddled incompetence. Harsh words? Well, consider the facts, starting with this Toronto Sun story: “Cap on student visas could wreak financial havoc on Ontario universities, says rep.” The gist of which is that Canada’s collapsed immigration policy, which helped cause the collapse of our housing policy, is now causing a collapse of our post-secondary education policy and the proposed solution is more inept meddling....