Why aren't McGill students striking?
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It's also related the the culture of entitlement in Greece as well... Doesn't mean that it has to get lumped into that thread
Because the strike instructions, following strick Quebec traditions, were delivered only in French.
You know you've hit the argumentative wall when you need to drop the Greece bomb.
Not really. Greece is the new WMD, so it's not surprising you would resort to fear mongering.
Fear mongering... Ask a Greek about what their future prospects look like.
Fear mongering indeed
Fear mongering indeed
Except that Canada is as much as Greece as you are an honest and able debater.
Waaaayyyy too funny.. A comment about honesty delivered from the author of all the Troll and Bait threads at CC.
And YOU are an able and honest debater? That is comical......................in all the issues you raise where money is a necessary component, you seem to be very adept at failing to address the lack thereof!
If that is what happened would the English students strike if English instructions were distributed?
Looks like McGill might be striking after all.
This thread now has a purpose.
Tuition fight could spill outside Quebec as Ontario students get set to join protests
With Quebec tuition protest arrests at 2,500 and counting, Ontario students and unions say they’re gearing up to join their counterparts in demonstrating against tuition hikes.
The show of solidarity comes after nearly 700 protesters were arrested across Quebec Wednesday night, many in mass kettling roundups, which prompted Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois to declare the ongoing strife “the worst social crisis we have ever known in Quebec.”
Students in Quebec have been striking for more than a 100 days to oppose a proposed 75% tuition hike, which has sparked violent clashes and mass arrests by police.
Premier Dalton McGuinty, however, says his government has helped Ontario students — who face one of the highest tuition fees in Canada — by giving them a 30% rebate.
But the students say the rebate only affects one-third of students and the government hiked tuition rates shortly after it took effect.
They say they’re not advocating violence, but warn there’s unrest brewing among students who are frustrated with paying sky-high fees for their education.
The University of British Columbia student union is also showing solidarity with Quebec, announcing it will write to Quebec Premier Jean Charest, formally condemning Quebec’s special law that puts restrictions on the tuition protests that have rocked that province for months.
The UBC student council passed a resolution earlier this week committing to call on Charest’s government to respect the financial, legal and intellectual autonomy of Quebec student unions.
However, an amendment that would have sent money to a legal fund for the Quebec protesters was voted down.
“At this point in time, what was immediately needed was a stance on Bill 78, considering its potential implications to student associations across Canada,” said Matt Parson, the student union president.
The UBC motion also disapproved of violence by all parties in the ongoing dispute.
The scope of the Quebec protests has turned toward the historic: With arrests surpassing 2,500, at least five times as many people have been jailed than during the 1970 FLQ crisis that saw martial law declared in Quebec.
While nobody has died, unlike in 1970, and most people arrested have been simply ticketed and immediately released, unlike those left to languish in jails back then, critics of the provincial government have spared no adjective to describe current events.
“Six-hundred-fifty-one — that’s the number of arrests yesterday … of ordinary citizens, men, women, young people arrested because they wanted to voice their opposition to decisions of the Liberal regime,” Marois said Thursday. “That’s where the Quebec Liberal party has taken us: mass arrests, more often than not arbitrary ones, to silence opposition.”
In that gloomy atmosphere, rays of hope emerged Thursday for possible progress.
There were plans for the government and student leaders to meet again, likely early next week. Education Minister Michelle Courchesne said she expected a “very, very important” session after having had positive discussions over the phone.
A new point man has also been assigned to help resolve the crisis: Premier Jean Charest has replaced his chief of staff with a well-regarded veteran who once served in that same role for him, bringing back Daniel Gagnier from political retirement with a mandate to make peace.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/25/ontario-students-poised-to-join-quebec-in-tuition-protests/
This thread now has a purpose.
Tuition fight could spill outside Quebec as Ontario students get set to join protests
With Quebec tuition protest arrests at 2,500 and counting, Ontario students and unions say they’re gearing up to join their counterparts in demonstrating against tuition hikes.
The show of solidarity comes after nearly 700 protesters were arrested across Quebec Wednesday night, many in mass kettling roundups, which prompted Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois to declare the ongoing strife “the worst social crisis we have ever known in Quebec.”
Students in Quebec have been striking for more than a 100 days to oppose a proposed 75% tuition hike, which has sparked violent clashes and mass arrests by police.
Premier Dalton McGuinty, however, says his government has helped Ontario students — who face one of the highest tuition fees in Canada — by giving them a 30% rebate.
But the students say the rebate only affects one-third of students and the government hiked tuition rates shortly after it took effect.
They say they’re not advocating violence, but warn there’s unrest brewing among students who are frustrated with paying sky-high fees for their education.
The University of British Columbia student union is also showing solidarity with Quebec, announcing it will write to Quebec Premier Jean Charest, formally condemning Quebec’s special law that puts restrictions on the tuition protests that have rocked that province for months.
The UBC student council passed a resolution earlier this week committing to call on Charest’s government to respect the financial, legal and intellectual autonomy of Quebec student unions.
However, an amendment that would have sent money to a legal fund for the Quebec protesters was voted down.
“At this point in time, what was immediately needed was a stance on Bill 78, considering its potential implications to student associations across Canada,” said Matt Parson, the student union president.
The UBC motion also disapproved of violence by all parties in the ongoing dispute.
The scope of the Quebec protests has turned toward the historic: With arrests surpassing 2,500, at least five times as many people have been jailed than during the 1970 FLQ crisis that saw martial law declared in Quebec.
While nobody has died, unlike in 1970, and most people arrested have been simply ticketed and immediately released, unlike those left to languish in jails back then, critics of the provincial government have spared no adjective to describe current events.
“Six-hundred-fifty-one — that’s the number of arrests yesterday … of ordinary citizens, men, women, young people arrested because they wanted to voice their opposition to decisions of the Liberal regime,” Marois said Thursday. “That’s where the Quebec Liberal party has taken us: mass arrests, more often than not arbitrary ones, to silence opposition.”
In that gloomy atmosphere, rays of hope emerged Thursday for possible progress.
There were plans for the government and student leaders to meet again, likely early next week. Education Minister Michelle Courchesne said she expected a “very, very important” session after having had positive discussions over the phone.
A new point man has also been assigned to help resolve the crisis: Premier Jean Charest has replaced his chief of staff with a well-regarded veteran who once served in that same role for him, bringing back Daniel Gagnier from political retirement with a mandate to make peace.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/25/ontario-students-poised-to-join-quebec-in-tuition-protests/
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