I'm from Quebec, Canada. Provincial government takes about 22% of our money while federal governement takes about 15-18 %. That's without talking about sales taxes that goes around 15% on every thing you buy.
College cost is a joke when you study in your home city (probably around 200-300$/year). University is around 200$/course, so around 2000$/year.
I LOVE CANADA!
You can get scolarships, but almost everybody is intitled to governement education loans.
We are really taxed but education is quite affordable.
I whish we had a school like GIT here. Althought right now I got a good job, don't think I would live it behind.