QUESTION PERIOD — Employment and Social Development
Post-secondary Education
April 28, 2026
Government leader, a recent survey from Embark Student Corp. highlights an alarming reality: More than 25% of Canadian families cannot afford to finance their children’s post-secondary education.
At a time when families are grappling with record household debt, a severe housing crisis and the worst food inflation in the G7, many simply cannot contribute enough to tools like RESPs or benefit fully from the Canada Education Savings Grant. Senator Moreau, families are doing their best, but they cannot carry this burden alone.
Why has your government failed to ensure that every Canadian child, regardless of income, has an accessible and affordable path to higher education?
Senator Ataullahjan, thank you for the question, but I disagree with the premise of it.
The government knows that times are difficult, and that’s why we are working on many fronts to make life affordable for Canadians. Whether it is affordability or food prices, whether it is, as I answered earlier, working on algorithmic pricing on groceries, whether it’s on housing, the government, in the last budget — and I don’t like reminding you that your Conservative colleagues in the other place voted against all of these measures — has been working on housing, affordability and improving the economy.
I understand that Senator Batters does not agree, but I don’t see the day that she and I will agree on anything.
