Quebec students plan to protest tuition fees
Posted Feb 14, 2012 05:08:42 AM.
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MONTREAL – The Quebec government will be coming under pressure from the province’s students in the next two weeks.
Students say they’re planning a series of strikes to force the government to back off plans to nearly double university tuition fees.
Around 20-thousand students voted last week in favour of the strikes, and some student associations in Montreal have already walked out.
A spokesperson says many of the strikes will take place next Monday and protests are planned outside the offices of the ministers of finance and education.
If the government goes ahead with the hikes, Quebec would still have by far the lowest university tuition in the country.
In-province students pay an average of 21-hundred dollars a year, far less than the national average of 51-hundred dollars.
The planned increases would bring Quebec’s undergrad fees to nearly 38-hundred dollars.
