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Originally Posted by mello
Shouldn't everyone in Montreal be happy with the "infrastructure and condo booms" that are occurring there right now? Hell here in San Diego we are making a big deal out of office vacancy rates dropping, nothing is getting built here...
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Hahaha! Not everyone's a member of these forums, new condo construction isn't exactly the opiate that will calm the disgruntled masses
. There's a sense that the government is corrupt and that the students are having to take on this added financial burden to make up for the money that was squandered on inefficiency and their mafia buddies in that construction industry. We have the lowest tuition but also very high taxes, so it should be well funded but isn't due to a lack of competition in the political arena, as too often elections aren't determined on the merit of fiscal competency but on separatism vs. federalism and cultural concerns. This breeds mediocrity in true day to day governance and this is in part an expression of deep discontent with the provincial political situation. That, and students believe in preserving our more financially accessible model of education. They don't believe we should conform to the prices in other provinces just because, they say higher education funding should be a greater priority and money should be found through cutting out the massive number of wasteful inefficiencies in the bureaucracy.