envy for many years. Cheap tuition, cheap daycare -- there's a list. "We gave it up, so what's their problem?" Envy messes with our heads and clouds our thinking. It makes us small and stupid and easy to control. It took months of striking and pots a-clanging to clear the bullshit. But thanks to Quebecers' ability to sustain the action, we got the time we needed to untangle our own disordered thoughts. Of course, Quebec's lower tuition fees are not what's wrong with the education picture in Canada. The debt burden our post-secondary system imposes on students here in Ontario is the problem, and the Quebec example is actually the solution. If Canada as a whole has grown in affluence over the last three decades, which it has, why is our country less able to afford to educate its young? And what really makes no sense is the way wealth creation is increasingly showered exclusively on the very, very rich. Come on. That's a travesty for 99.9 per cent of us. The numbers tell a very clear story. Quebec students and friends are not suffering from a psychology of over-entitlement. Rather, the passivity of the rest of us is reflecting some weird self-esteem deficit. Quebec's pot-bangers are sending Canada a loud message to awaken to our own self-worth and confidence in the future. These times are calling us to abandon our small-minded, narrow selves. This uprising is our opportunity to nourish new dreams for the future with wishes grand enough