This would all be conveniently solved if Canada didn't take so much of people's money to pay for so much other people's things. > structure post-secondary educ

This would all be conveniently solved if Canada didn't take so much of people's money to pay for so much other people's things. > structure post-secondary education subsidies as a sort of debt That's called a student loan. The US government does exactly this in the form of "scholarships" where you're essentially indentured to the government for X years after graduating.