The new Ontario Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty announced a Postsecondary Review (also known as the Rae Review) in their Budget 2004 to review the design and funding of Ontario's postsecondary education system and recommend innovative ways in which our institutions can provide the best education to students and support Ontario's prosperity.

A brilliant, informative, progressive and well researched counterpoint to the Rae Review has been developed by the Canadian Federations of Students. On its newly launched ReviewRae website CFS notes:

Unfortunately, it appears that Rae had an outcome in mind before the consultation even began. Days after Rae's appointment, he publicly announced his opposition to centrally regulated tuition fees. And the discussion paper released on October 1 provides only a poor rationale for higher tuition fees and higher student debt.

In its publications, particularly on the theme of Accountability, the CFS has noted that the Ontario universities are exempt from Freedom of Information legislation. We at OurTrent believe that this has allowed the Ontario universities and to operation without any accountability whatsoever and that higher tuition fees are a direct result.

OurTrent applauds the efforts of the CFS.