Mike Harris Progressive Conservatives elected; in power until 2003.
A 16% cut to university funding is implemented, programs are cut, performance indicators are created and applied, and tuition rises sharply as the government allows universities to increase fees by as much as 20%.
Activists begin holding a series of “Days of Action” across the province to protest the Harris cuts.
Average Ontario university undergraduate tuition fees (2014 dollars): $3,655.