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Honestly, I'm not going place all this at Ford's feet for once. A lot of the colleges became far too reliant on foreign tuitions.
Part of the reason they're reliant on that is because of Ford's government. They put a freeze on tuition five years ago. In theory, that's good for local students. However, the costs of operating the schools have gone up. Colleges helped make up the shortfall by increasing the number of international students. This effectively subsidized their domestic classmates.
For some colleges that was true, for others, they fueled unnecessary expansions. Hopefully things balance back out, and we get a government willing to fund things properly.
What is considered an unnecessary expansion? Is this just when they add more variety of classes or start teaching new programs that there weren't enough people to support before?
They didn't choose to. They had their funding slashed and their international student limits raised. Their choice was either go bankrupt or take the bait.
Are you joking? Ontario pays about $8,000 per student per year for post-secondary education. It is the lowest in Canada. The next lowest is Nova Scotia, which pays $13,000.