As Quebec’s student protesters got headlines this spring and summer, they also cost taxpayers a lot of money. Montreal city police working overtime to monitor their marches and shenanigans billed an extra $7.3 million, La Presse reports. Provincial police billed an extra $1.5 million for the extra workload.
Tag Archives: student strikes
Quebec politics amid strife: Charest, undead, lives on?!
As dark as things are for the Premier, he can take comfort in this: his opponents aren’t faring much better than him
Wrongs and rights: how did Quebec’s student standoff come to this?
There is no shortage of finger-pointing on either side
Quebec’s protest crackdown: It’s not just rights that make it wrong
The problem up until now has been a lack of enforcement, not a lack of legislation
Charest invokes ‘special law’ to suspend semesters in Quebec’s boycotted schools
Quebec premier Jean Charest announced a law on Wednesday night to suspend classes 11 universities and 14 CEGEPS across the province currently affected by student boycotts.
Quebec’s student protests: righteous anger, shame about the execution
Perversely, they add legitimacy to the government’s argument for a special law to end the strike
Where do you stand on Quebec student strikes?
[polldaddy poll=”6231325″]
Quebec Education Minister Line Beauchamp steps down, says she’s no longer ‘part of the solution’
Quebec’s education minister is resigning, not just from cabinet, but from politics altogether, walking away from a tuition dispute that has sparked months of protest and chaos across the province.
Quebec: From Quiet Revolution to not-so-quiet student riot
Why a modest tuition hike has sparked unending protests
Quebec and students: it’s actually worse than you think
Perversely, there’s a normalcy to all this Gong Show-iness