Dutifully blogging Stéphane Dion’s knowledge-economy platform plank in a way our more sensitive readers will not find snide or dismissive!
By Paul Wells - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 47 Comments
So Stéphane Dion showed up at Western Western Western U (college fair and square™) this morning to unveil his plank on student aid and university-based research. It is substantial. So much so that when you get to the bottom of the news release, there’s a link to a .pdf backgrounder with yet more detail. So this is only a quick read. Here’s the quick read:
- Some handy housecleaning in the forest of student tax credits and benefits. These would be replaced with an up-front Education Grant payable every three months, at the same time as GST rebates. This grant plus the GST rebates (which most but not all students receive) adds to about $1,000 a year. Paid for by re-allocating some of the money that now goes to tax credits. (See how tax credits are actually spending programs, and are in fact often treated as such? Andrew Coyne wins another argument!)
- Students who work will get an extra $250 from the Green Shift’s “enriched and refundable employment credit.” Because what you want to do is encourage students to get jobs while at school. What?
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