Higher university tuition is necessary

Re: “University funding ap reaches $850 million” (Gazette, Jan. 16)

The lower tuition fees in Quebec are a major reason for the funding gap between universities here and in other provinces.

The many months of student protests against the proposed tuition hike, Premier Pauline Marois’s win and the cancellation of the tuition hike thereafter didn’t solve anything!

The most reasonable solution to this problem is to increase university tuition. I am in Grade 9. Students who were protesting were not being realistic, in my opinion. You can’t freeze tuition for 20 years and expect to keep up with the quality of universities across Canada.

Delaying the solution is not a solution.

It seems certain that ultimately, the tuition hike will happen. Shame on us that, instead of understanding the situation, we have to be babied through it.

Fayeza Ahmad

Montreal