Brave lads....

   

Notice how there's only eight of them and tens of thousands of normal people behind them.

   

Actually three thousand- and what makes them more normal than the eight in front?

   

Is that a man of the cloth in the background?



Looks familiar.

   

Thing that gets me though.. if you have seen any of these protests in vancouver... irregardless of what is being protested.. it's the same people. About 500-600. We have professional rent a crowd organization here in Vancouver. People who show up at every event just to protest everything under the sun. Protest against the government that is writing thier welfare cheque so that the don't need to get a job because it would cut into thier protest time and availability.

   

"Eight Canadian Protest Warriors took on three thousand screaming, rabidly leftist students at a Mega-Union sponsored froth-fest in downtown Vancouver, BC. It was an anti-tuition rally backed by the statist student lobby Canadian Federation of Students and financed by union big-bosses."

What happened to paying for your own education? I paid for mine! They should make these kids go work in Food Kitchens and Homeless Shelters or help build a habitat for humanity house. Then they would truly understand what it is to be without instead of bitching that they don't have enough. I praise the eight in front, but they are truly outnumbered by the 3000 behind them.

   

Seeing as how I'm Canadian & kinda proud of our language & opposed to the bastardization of it, . . . I have to point out when someone screws it up!!

There is no such word as "irregardless!!" What you mean is "regardless."

Just my lesson of the day!!

   

I don't believe that post secondary education should be free, but it should be affordable. Tuition fees are getting out of hand, soon we might be like the Americans where you need to be rich or get a scholorship just to go to a decent school.

   

You may not realize it, but a lot of people still work for their tuition money. I, for one, work at a shitty job for just over minimum wage all summer. That barely, barely covers tuition for a year. Ever since Campbell came in tutition has shot way up. I go to UCFV and when I started 4 years ago, it cost about $500 a semester for four courses (not counting books). Now, the same four courses cost $1800 a semester. The same increases have happened at UBC, SFU and just about every university in BC.

So guess why there's so many pissed off students in BC.

   

the prices students were paying were unrealistic. with a tuition freeze for 10+ years. We had the cheapest tuitioin in all of North America probably.

We still do!

   

Yes, I am well aware of the above facts. I neglected to mention that it was the rate of increases that pissed a lot of people. Personally, I would have been OK with a small increase every year, but one year tuition rose by 50% for me.

What they should have done when they first lifted the freeze is what they're doing now and that is tying the increases to the inflation rate which keeps it sane.

   

I'm not disputing that there would have had to be a hike. I'm just saying the hikes were excessively drastic and excessively sudden.

And you and Trev are right, they still are cheap compared to the rest of Canada, not to mention the US. MY only complaint was with the large instantaneous increases.

And no, I did not complain when the rates were frozen.