Fallout after Ontario freezes OSAP for career colleges

There's days that I'm not eating so my kids can eat. I had to quit my retail job because of my school hours and what I was doing for a living. After the Ontario government abruptly paused OSAP grant and loan payments to students at all private career colleges, thousands of students don't have money to pay tuition. This is not what any of us had planned when we decided to change our lives and go back to school. The province froze payments because it's investigating serious concerns about the integrity of the OSAP system in the private post-secondary sector citing potential links between private career colleges and immigration recruitment. The government isn't naming specific colleges it's looking into but some colleges that say they follow the rules worry about how it makes the whole industry look. Private career colleges have had a reputation for some time as being you know less than in some sense you know publicly funded colleges and unfortunately when situations like this occur it just reinforces that we're you surprised about the pause it was no surprise if I'm being completely honest when somebody's not pulling or when they're doing things that they shouldn't be doing word just gets around as we all talk are you anticipating any kind of mass dropout? We're not sure the significant how many people will but there will be people that withdraw. It's still early days but there's concern that fewer students could affect industries that hire private college grads. Many of the fields like healthcare rely on career colleges you know during COVID you know the amount of personal support workers that we trained across the province was huge." As for students like Marina and Catherine and their families, what's next is up in the air. I know how much homework and time and effort that I've had to take away from my kids while doing schoolwork and everything else was it all for nothing.