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A Carleton University student is spearheading an online petition signed by more than 200,000 people protesting the province’s recently announced changes to education funding.

The petition on Change.org was originally created as three different petitions protesting the PC government’s plans to cut fees for universities, while paring back the loans available to students in the province.

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Officials at Change.org suggested the three petitions be merged into one late Tuesday night.

As of Wednesday morning, 201,394 people had signed the newly unified petition. The online protest was created by students in Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa’s Gaelan Kirby, a civil engineering student at Carleton University.

While he expects the funding changes to affect him and contribute around $2,000 in new debt, Kirby said the impact on others will be much worse, which is why he helped create the petition.