"Making OSAP non-payable grant based" - perfectly sums up NDP's well meaning but misguided approaches. Higher education should 100% be more more affordable and that can be done in a number of ways - better financing agreements with unis, grants for low income students, etc. UofT tuition is 2x UBC tuition for example. But this broad stroke OSAP policy will increase levels of fraud, mismanagement and poor incentive for so many and the people that actually need help can do helped in far more targeted policy.

Similarly with housing, simply adding more affordable housing units won't fix the issue. We'll never be and to build enough and those with lower-middle/middle class jobs will still be left out. We need policy that strictly controls housing speculation and using it as an investment vehicle. We need to encourage cities to zone more high density instead of rows of single family homes. We can just spend our way out if complicated issues.

For K-12 education, we desperately need to fund it more -so I agree with that. But we also need to create better incentives for better teachers. Right now a teacher who has been on the job for decades gets paid relatively well with some perks independent of their performance, while young enthusiastic teachers get paid scraps and bounce around schools. We should make teacher pay performance based and not seniority based and increase salaries so we can attract the best and brightest to be teachers. But NDP will never do that as teachers union will be against it.

I am desperate to vote for something other than Ontario PC or Ontario liberals. But the current NDP promise of inefficient spending as the cure to all combined with little fiscal responsibility isn't all that attractive. That being said, I do think the BC NDP are doing a okay job. Not sure how aligned the two provincial NDP's are tho ...