Theres something energizing about an election.
Messaging is key.
Its about bringing funding for universities up to the national average per capita, and its about appropriately addressing faculty renewal, declining library resources, loss of research capacity, and student debt-load. The election will provide university faculty, students and staff with an excellent opportunity to raise public awareness about the effects of government funding policies on Ontarios universities, and to place higher education on the electoral agenda of the three main political parties. It will allow us to educate the public, the political parties, and the candidates on the importance of Ontario universities to future prosperity. On the face of it this might appear to be an organizationally efficient means of addressing issues of diversity under a single umbrella. After all, the argument goes, equity is equity no matter who we are talking about.