By Sidhartha Banerjee The Canadian Press
MONTREAL – One Quebec student group says that with tuition hikes officially off the table, it will now champion the idea of free education.
The new Parti Quebecois government scrapped a controversial increase in post-secondary tuition fees this week and a hardline student group is now turning to free education as its long-term goal.
CLASSE, which speaks for 100,000 Quebec students, says free education is entirely achievable and used a march attended by several hundred people on Saturday to highlight the issue.
“Our struggle for accessibility to higher education is not yet over,” said Jeremie Bedard-Wien, a spokesman for CLASSE.
Free education is not a position that is shared by the province’s two other major student associations and with the proposed hike by the former Liberal government formally cancelled, Quebec has the lowest tuition in the country again.
But CLASSE says it wants education to be completely accessible by being entirely free.
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LOOK FOLKS, SINCE THIS WILL PROBABLY COME OUT OF EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS, OR SOME OTHER FORM OF QUEBEC BLACKMAIL, WHY DON’T ALL CANADIANS JUST ANTI-UP AND PAY FOR A FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN QUEBEC ……………………….., BUT ONLY IN FRENCH OF COURSE!
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