Student reps lobby for funding change in Ottawa

By Marvin Calderon, News Writer

Two SAIT student executives say their recent lobby trip to Ottawa will benefit students through alternative options in funding post-secondary education.

SAITSA VP finance Colin Rose, and VP academic Heather MacBeath, were both in Ottawa in late March as part of the annual lobby meeting for the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), a non-profit group representing post-secondary students nationwide. CASA members met with the country’s leaders to discuss ways to relieve some of the costs from obtaining higher education.

Rose said the group met with over 150 Members of Parliament, senators and government officials during the week-long conference and pushed their five main lobby priorities for the country’s leaders to consider.

MacBeath said one policy that garnered support from decision-makers was a textbook policy “which was to remove…
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