Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over recent cuts to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) Tuesday, telling them to “not pick basket-weaving courses” and to invest in education that gives people in-demand jobs.

Speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park, Ford said he received “thousands of calls” from students over the long weekend, who expressed concerns about the province cutting the amount of grant money students can receive through OSAP.

“I mentioned to the students, you have to invest in your future, into in-demand jobs,” he said.

“You’re picking basket-weaving courses, and there’s not too many baskets being sold out there.”

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Ford would be a better person with a liberal arts degree. His whole life has been a closed bubble of corruption and Nepotism from his father, and he literally knows nothing. I doubt he has ever read a book.

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
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      15 hours ago

      We have libraries for this.

      The notion that we should pay tens of thousands of dollars for everyone to go and get an arts degree and then be basically unemployable is a ridiculous one though. (Remember, OSAPs are just pure grants, there’s no repayment, it’s just a gift.)