Reports from the Province say that Kathleen Wynne can use her majority Government, and pass a Conservative-style back-to-work bill this weekend. The Wynn Liberals will pass their bill by Sunday, but the NDP will force Wynne to stay at work this weekend and debate the bill. With the back-to-work legislation, issues like student compensation and fixing the structural and funding problems at colleges will likely go unresolved.
The government has the ability to pass the bill on the following timeline:
First reading: Friday Nov. 17
Second reading: Saturday Nov. 18
Third and final reading, passage of the bill: Sunday, Nov. 19
The five-week strike was caused by years of under-funding colleges by the Liberal government, which now has the lowest per-student funding in the country.
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