Keeping things in perspective:
The 2012 Quebec student protests are a series of ongoing student demonstrations led by Quebec students’ associations, students, and their supporters against a proposal by the Quebec Cabinet, headed by Premier Jean Charest, to raise university tuition from $2,168 to $3,793 between 2012 and 2017.
Those 2017 tuition fees are lower than what I will spend in one month of my master’s program at Columbia this coming year. So stop complaining, French Canada. Cool video, though. I will give you that.
(Side note: when will governments learn that outlawing protest — or some thinly disguised variant of outlawing it — doesn’t solve anything?)
Related articles
- Charest launches legislation to crack down on student protests (theglobeandmail.com)
- 36 more arrested in Quebec student protests (rawstory.com)
- Quebec’s new protest law will be struck down by court challenge over charter violation: lawyer (news.nationalpost.com)
- Quebec protests resume after mass arrests – FRANCE 24 #NoAgenda (osdsc.wordpress.com)
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