It is a crucial time for strengthening the fight back for free, accessible, public and democratic education across Canada.
In the context where students across the country are facing skyrocketing student debts that average $30 000, there is an urgent need to strengthen the fightback. In addition, there is a real danger of electing reactionary governments provincially and in Québec, as well as federally in 2019. In Ontario, students face the threat of deregulated tuition fees from the new reactionary, Ford government. Attacks against students should be fought fiercely by the student movement which has a long history of being a key component of the progressive fightback in Canada.