Fund Ontario's Public Colleges

Doug Ford is defunding colleges at a time we need it the most. 

Ontario’s college system is on life support. The culprit? Chronic underfunding and the Ford governments' plans to privatize education.

10,000 faculty and support staff jobs in public colleges have been lost already, and 650+ programs have closed across Ontario's 24 college campuses. If nothing is done, we will see colleges merge or close, erasing opportunities for learners, and dealing devastating blows to local economies - especially in rural and northern parts of the province.

With economic uncertainty due to Trump’s tariffs, and high youth unemployment: colleges were built for this very moment. But while provincial grants to colleges go down every year, since 2020 we've seen Doug Ford pump $2.5 billion dollars into the "Skills Development Fund", which has doled out massive amounts of money to subsidize corporate training, which have seemingly low to no educational standards or requirements for reporting, unlike colleges.

Colleges provide cycle-breaking education for thousands of Ontarians across the country - offering life changing education in their own communities, critical for retraining, non-traditional learners, or for those who leaving a community is just not financially possible.

We cannot stand by as Doug Ford tries to privatize our college system. Sign the petition now to call on Doug Ford to fund Ontario's college system, not corporate subsidies.