changes to OSAP aren\u2019t that straight forward<\/a>, said Danny Corral, assistant professor at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\nHe said the program is funded by both the province and federal government, but the new cuts will only affect the provincial portion of OSAP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Up to 60 per cent of OSAP funding comes from the federal government, according to Employment and Social Development Canada. That means OSAP changes will affect about 40 per cent of the funding that comes from the province.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents are really in a state of limbo, so to speak, in terms of really understanding how this is exactly going to impact them,\u201d said Corral.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LISTEN | Western University students share how OSAP changes will impact them:<\/p>\n
London Morning7:572 local university students explain how OSAP changes will affect them<\/p>\n
Students are rallying against Ford’s changes to OSAP, including cuts to OSAP and a reduction of grants. Western University students Brooklin Begg and Amrithaa Logeswaran told London Morning how this will affect their budgets and choice to pursue post-secondary education.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said the province has an aid estimator tool to help students see how much they might receive in grants versus loans, but that tool has yet to be updated since the announced changes. <\/p>\n
The ministry of education has said that it will be updated sometime this spring. <\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully these protests continue to demonstrate that students are stressed, students are angry \u2026 because of the real impact that these policy changes are going to have on their futures,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Corral encouraged students to keep pushing for answers and to stay on top of updates from the province in the months ahead. <\/p>\n
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Students and politicians at the rally said the cuts to OSAP come at a time when families are already struggling with an affordability crisis. (Evan Mitsui\/CBC)Province ‘lit a match’ against students, families: Fraser<\/p>\n
Putting more financial pressure on students and their families during an affordability crisis is the wrong thing to do, Ontario Liberal education critic John Fraser told CBC Toronto at the rally. <\/p>\n
“It’s not just the government against students. It’s the government against families, and students are paying the price,” he said, adding the Ford government needs to reverse the OSAP changes and look at how to make higher education more accessible. <\/p>\n
He said it’s been “a long, long time” since there was a crowd of hundreds protesting outside Queen’s Park. <\/p>\n
“The government lit a match and it’s going to keep burning until they reverse the cuts,” Fraser said. <\/p>\n
Opposition parties will be bringing the issue to a vote as soon as the Legislative Assembly resumes later this month, said Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles at the Queen’s Park rally. <\/p>\n
She said they’ll be listening to students and demonstrators to guide the action they take. <\/p>\n
“We fund post-secondary education at the lowest rate of any province in the country and our students, economy and industry are suffering because of it,” she said. <\/p>\n
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Across the province, including at Queen’s Park in Toronto, hundreds of students staged protests and walkouts to demand cuts to OSAP be reversed. (Evan Mitsui\/CBC)Students in ‘limbo’ due to OSAP uncertainty: professor<\/p>\n