University of British Columbia Postdoctoral Fellow Eric Wilkinson has written an article urging renewed public investments in postsecondary education to transform Canada into an educational superpower. The author outlines how public funding for postsecondary education has changed and declined over time. He asserts that with renewed investment, Canadian PSE could take advantage of the US brain drain and rebuild its presence on the world stage. “While Ottawa considers spending five percent of GDP on defence, it should ask itself why we spend only 0.2 percent of GDP on our universities,” concludes Wilkinson. “If they can solve that riddle, maybe someday instead of McGill being called the ‘Harvard of Canada,’ we’ll be calling Harvard the ‘McGill of America.’”
