Quebec Tuition Deal May Not Fly: Student Leader
A key student leader suggested Sunday that a tentative deal reached Saturday to resolve the often-violent confrontation over tuition-fee hikes might not make the grade when students across the province cast their votes on it this week.
Martine Desjardins, president of the Federation Etudiante Universitaire du Quebec, said Quebec Education Minister Line Beauchamp is not helping matters by gloating about how the government didn’t relinquish its planned tuition hike.
“She’s not helping,” said Desjardins, adding she doubted this is “going through right now.”
However, Desjardins said she will explain to students that this is a last-ditch effort to save the semester.
“This is about the best we can do,” Desjardins said.
“The response has not been very positive.
“But this is the only thing students will get from this government.