Let's get the timeline clear here:
1. Career Colleges Ontario warns the Ford government about suspicious OSAP activity in January 2023. Ford lets private career colleges abuse the system for years.
2. Earlier this summer, we learn that just seven private career colleges received $385M in grants, the same amount as all public colleges in Ontario combined.
3. Instead of holding bad actors accountable, Ford punishes all students who rely on OSAP.
Young people are already struggling to get by in an economy stacked against them. Doug Ford needs to reverse these OSAP cuts, take accountability for his own mismanagement, and hold the bad actors responsible instead of punishing all students.
BREAKING: The Ford government is halting OSAP funding to private career colleges and referring the sector to the OPP after KPMG uncovered "serious concerns" over application integrity.
Audit red flags: shared ownership, immigration recruiters, lack of student validation, and suspicious geographic application clusters β Policorner