New funding for research initiatives is announced, including the establishment of 2000 Canada Research Chairs by 2004/5.
Federal budget allocates an additional $2.5 billion for post-secondary education and health over four years under the Canada Health and Social Transfer program.
OCUFA begins organizing a series of communications and lobbying workshops for its members, to help them learn how to more effectively lobby the provincial government.
OCUFA commissions a series of polls to gauge how residents in particular areas of the province feel about their children’s ability to access higher education.
Average Ontario university undergraduate tuition fees: $4,297 ($5,638 in 2014 dollars).