It is interesting to see that New Brunswick supports online universities while in Quebec the only "virtual university" (Télé-Université) has been merged with UQAM in 2005.

Right now, in Quebec, the way ahead is to let traditional public universities become "bimodal" universities and offer online courses and sometimes online programs. But these courses often simply are classroom material delivered through a web page.

It would be interesting to see the level of online interaction offered by these universities in their courses. Personally, I do not really care if they do research or not, as long as they provide quality courses.

I may be wrong, but I'm quite sure that Quebec legislation would not allow such private universities.