Should The Saskatchewan Party Cut The Cost Of Education

Cutting Towards Education

Education is considered to be a very important step toward a person’s future success. But the Saskatchewan Party is cutting the education funding budget, they believe cutting the education budget would help balancing out their budget but in reality, these cuts created job layoffs, rise in both tuitions and education taxes and most importantly impacting the future university student lives because it will be harder to payoff their post-secondary debts.

The Saskatchewan Party believes that their budget will be balanced if they consistently cut the education fundings and dramatically increasing the taxes on education then it will help with the province deficit; “The budget says Saskatchewan's pre-kindergarten-to-Grade-12 school system will receive $1.86 billion in school operating money in 2017-18, which is $22 million less than the previous fiscal year” (O’Connor). According to budget documents, property tax revenues on residential properties will go up 10.6

It is not right to cut the education funding budget because it will result in increasing tuitions and most importantly job layoffs; “ it’s getting more difficult as a student…. It’s going to be a big harder to pay for the costs of tuition, and top that with textbooks, it’s going to be tougher….We can’t really afford a whole bunch of cuts, we’re kind of struggling. Peterson said” (Dao). This indicates that university teachers have a higher chance to get layoff; “if layoffs are part of that, then layoffs would be part of that — we're not taking that off the table at all," Doherty said” (CBC News). To conclude, the government might not see the effects to their bad judgement but it directly affect the citizen's life; job layoffs and an increase in tuition will make citizens or students life much more