Post-Secondary Education in Ontario

Angry in the Great White North has a good posting up about Ontario's so-called "crisis" in post-secondary education:

A new rule I have just imposed (because I can do that, you know):

From now on, a spokesperson of a university student association needs to be an economics major if he is going to discuss the lack of government support for post-secondary education.

Angry points out that the claims of hardship are not backed up by the actual figures:

Here's what's strange. If student tuitions have gone up so much, you would expect that the number of students would drop, since a post-secondary education is now beyond their reach financially. But then why are student-teacher ratios higher? For instance, in 2004, Ontario saw a 23% decrease in the number of foreign students studying in the province. But despite that drop (probably because the tuition increase is significantly higher for foreign student who pay the true price of an education, as opposed to the subsidized one Canadian students pay), the overall enrollment is going up [. . .]