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OPINION_BANNERDear Editor,

I write in reference to Vanessa Hunt's article in The Daily Herald of February 4.

Ms. Hunt bewails the "High cost of Canadian education," pointing out that it is "about three times the amount domestic students pay."

Curiously, Ms. Hunt's complaints appear in the same issue that suggests too many outsiders are driving up the cost of living in St. Maarten.

I presume that by...

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