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[quote=Anonymous]You know what, Canada is an awesome country in so many ways (although certainly not for every person who lives there).

But where does the money for subsidizing higher education come from? To a large extent, it comes from revenues on fossil fuel production, which accounts for more than a tenth of Canada's GDP. Canada is the world's sixth largest producer of fossil fuels. And Canada continues to push for exploiting ever-dirtier fossil fuels such as oil sands. That whole Keystone XL pipeline, that will screw Native Americans and put U.S. waters and the people who depend on them (e.g., farmers, anyone who drinks water) at grave risk for when (not if) the pipeline leaks? It is solely to transport crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast refineries. Who profits? Canada, not the U.S. Who will pay for the inevitable environmental contamination? The U.S., not Canada.

So yeah it's totally great about the excellent and inexpensive universities, but let's not forget that those subsidies come from somewhere, and they are not benign in terms of Canada's impact on the rest of the world.[/quote]

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