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Using discourse analysis, it shows how market-oriented values—competition, productivity, private interest, and profit—support the government’s ongoing effort to construct and normalize a neoliberal higher-education vision. 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It includes a  \ndiscourse analysis of Strengthening Ontario’s Centres ofCreativity, Innovation and Knowledge (Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, 2012), a government discussion paper developed to focus roundtable conversations on  \nthe future of higher education in the province. The analysis reveals that, by framing higher education around such market values as competition, productivity, private interest, and profit, the discussion paper supports the government in its  \ncontinuing efforts to construct, normalize, and advance a neoliberal vision of  \nhigher education.  \nIn 2012, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities (OMTCU)* released Strengthening Ontario’s Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge (hereafter Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge) a discussion paper ostensibly intended to strengthen higher education. Divided into four parts, the discussion paper (1) introduces the province’s postsecondary sector, notes what the author(s) take to be its track record, and sets a vision for the future; (2) reviews the financial and global context in which “transformation” of higher education will occur, with particular attention to managing costs and aligning higher education with a global trend towards technology-assisted learning, outcome-based credentials, increased student mobility, experiential learning, and new data and accountability measures; (3) provides discussion points and questions that align with the document’s review of the financial and global  \n* The ministry changed its name to the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development in June 2016.  \ncontext; and (4) concludes by reaffirming the need for a transformative strategy to promote innovation, productivity, fluidity, workplace partnerships, and quality measures in higher education, and by inviting the post-secondary education (PSE) community to engage in roundtable discussions and provide written submissions to the OMTCU. Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge is an important document to examine because it lays out a plan to “apply the vision for postsecondary education in Ontario, as articulated by our government, to the issue of sector transformation”(p. 6), which is further developed in the consultation and policy documents that followed.  \nThis paper analyzes Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge to assess the extent to which the Ontario government has embraced neoliberalism and marketization as hegemonic discourses to define and shape the future of higher education. To do this, the paper is divided into five sections. Section one provides an overview of the key tenets of neoliberalism and outlines fundamental differences between neoliberalism and classical liberalism. Section two exploreshow neoliberalism has transformed higher education through, for example, commodification of education, transformation of the student-teacher relationship, reframing of students as consumersand faculty as traditional workers, and adoption of managerial values. Section three introduces the discourse of a “knowledge economy” and knowledge capitalism and notes how this discourse has contributed to revaluation and reconfiguration of higher education’s societal purpose. Section four reviews the vocationalization of higher education and redefinition of the student as homo economicus, and section five discusses accountability, quality, and performance standards as they have come to be reconceptualised in current neoliberal discourse.  \nNeoliberalism  \nOver the last 30 years, neoliberalism has become the dominant economic discourse and philosophy in world economic relations. 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