Imagine running one of the biggest universities in

Canada and being told you're doing it wrong.

You know Paul, I'm not sure if that was a curveball or a beanball. I have to say it fell a little bit more like the ladder.

Today Concordia University President Graham Carr on the Quebec government's tuition bombshell. I'm Paul Wells, the journalist, fellow in residence at the University of Toronto's Munk School. Welcome to the Paul Wells Show. This week you're going to meet Graham Carr, a historian from Montreal, who's the president of Concordia, one of Canada's biggest universities. But what he can't ever forget is that Concordia is also one of Quebec's biggest universities. And because Concordia does most of what it does in English for English-speaking students, sometimes the government of Quebec sees Concordia as a problem. In October the government of Premier Francois Lago announced it would double tuition fees for Canadian students from outside Quebec. And will also keep more of the fees paid by students from outside Canada. The new tuition policy applies to every university in Quebec, but it's really going to hurt the ones that attract the largest number of out-of-province students and international students. And it just so happens that the schools at the top of that list are Quebec's English language universities, McGill, Concordia, and Bishops. Carr says the new policy could cost Concordia tens of millions of dollars per year. He says it'll dry up the supply of out-of-province students. Students just simply won't come to Quebec to study at Concordia. He's stuck at the centre of a paradox Concordia didn't create. The province doesn't want all of these English-speaking students lying around, but it really needs their money.