An Act relating to cash contributions by Canada and to criteria and conditions in respect of post-secondary education

Bill C-260 (44-1) was an NDP Private Member's Bill from Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) to set criteria and conditions a province must meet before it receives federal cash for post-secondary education. Modelled on the Canada Health Act's conditional-funding approach, it would have tied the federal transfer to national standards such as accessibility and affordability, giving Ottawa a way to hold provinces to those standards the way the Canada Health Act does for health care. There is currently no equivalent rights-and-standards framework for federal post-secondary funding. It did not pass third reading.