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Expansion proposals from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University and La Cité college are all dead, with the provincial government’s announcement Wednesday that it will only fund one new campus anywhere in Ontario — a new site for York University in Toronto’s northeastern suburbs.

When the province asked Ontario’s colleges and universities for proposals for major growth projects last year, the University of Ottawa had the boldest one from the schools in the capital: A new campus for French-speaking students in Woodstock, to serve the tens of thousands of francophones in southwestern Ontario who have hardly any options for post-secondary education in French. It even had a preliminary agreement for support from the town.

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The U of O also asked for a new health-science building to be built in Ottawa. Carleton proposed a new health-studies building of its own and a new headquarters for its business programs, plus support for course offerings in Cornwall and Niagara Falls. La Cité wanted to work with Sudbury’s Collège Boréal on a French-language trades-training centre in Toronto.