Government entitlement programs are a bit like tattoos: if they turn out badly, it's hard to get rid of them. That's what happened with Ontario's short-lived and failed experiment with so-called free tuition (or, more accurately, taxpayer funded tuition).
Once an entitlement is granted, recipients view it as a right and it becomes someone else's obligation to pay for it. Rolling that entitlement back is a huge challenge, even if it has proved ineffective and unsustainable.
