Priorities

Statistics Canada has estimated that provincial governments are spending 37 per cent of their budgets on health care -- it's as high as 43 per cent in Ontario -- compared to 6 per cent for colleges and universities. Ottawa, too, is plowing far more money into health care than postsecondary education and research. In rich provinces such as Ontario and Quebec, the ratio of health care to spending on colleges and universities is 7 to 1.

Here's hoping the Prime Minister is reading Jeff Simpson today.