The Student Loan thing is kind of a messed up situation on a myriad of fronts, and in my opinion shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Some people were lucky enough to either have wealthy parents, or middling parents that could scrape some cash to pay for their kids schooling. Many didn't have the chance to live at home throughout their degree, and didn't have a family income that would allow saving for tuition. Pretty hard to save to pay off my loans while I spend 4 days as a full time student, and the other 3 days working for basically four years straight. I'm not particularly bothered by that, but just pointing out that everyone's lot in life has a lot to do with their "university experience".
The entire post secondary system here is a business first and foremost. I am convinced that on an institutional level, there is no real emphasis on actually making you as intelligent as you can be - just paying lip service to parents and hs guidance counselors to coerce their kids into it. If they cared about your education, electives (for example) wouldn't exist to the degree that they do. My parents were absolutely shocked that we "choose" our courses. Education doesn't work that way. If you are in a field, you study that field, and electives are just there to pad your grades and make you feel like you have some sort of agency over the sub-par education you are shelling out for. Post-secondary should exist to learn a concrete skillset, not to "have an experience" or "discover yourself". You can do that on your own time, and for far less than the cost of tuition.
Most people who went to uni that I know of who are successful, also come from upper-middle class families. The rest, not so much. More of a who you know and not what you know sort of thing.
On the flip side, every deadbeat drug dealer from high school who went into trades is MILES ahead of most of my university cohorts, and debt free. I really regret not following my gut and going that route from the start. Mike Rowe (yeah, the Dirty Jobs guy), has some great talks about how the university system deliberately snubbed colleges in order to gain market share in NA.
The fact that 17 year olds are effectively coerced to sign loan applications for upwards of $30k, without even properly teaching them interest rates (let alone the difference between a floating or fixed rate, which I also had to choose at 17), or explaining what co-signing a loan entails, is frankly criminal. If I fully grasped the concept of $30k at 17, I would've gone another route. I don't regret my education by any means, but the money could've been used better elsewhere. I've been working consistently since I was about 15, so I've learned to be alright with my money, but I can't imagine how people with less financial literacy than me (and I'm no expert) can fare. It's absolutely insane.
My vote can absolutely be bought. The statement doesn't mean much, as no individual vote really has any value on its own, but I'd sell my soul for a term to be debt free.
As far as the sticker thing goes (sorry, I have a moral vendetta against student loans system here), I am quite dubious about it. That money will have to come from somewhere in my mind - I just think that detail is being deliberately left out for now..
EDIT: I'd just like to quickly remark on some prior points mentioned here. Yes, about half of your loans are grants, and yes, as a Canadian you don't pay full tuition. On it's own, that seems like a GREAT thing. But, pair that with stagnating wages and astronomical cost of living increases, and all of a sudden even that becomes too much to manage for many people. I think my point here is that the issue is far bigger than just OSAP, or the Universities, its the public discourse and opinion on where public money is best spent. I am of a mind that a more educated and healthier population is a better population, but to employers who want desk jockeys and CAD monkeys, having a workforce that is knowledgeable about more than their specific work function is not ideal. People who know their value cause problems, and we can't have that.
