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Vol. 72/No. 15      April 14, 2008

 
Quebec students protest cutbacks
 
BY JOE YOUNG  
MONTREAL—Students at the University of Quebec in Montreal are protesting moves by the school’s administration to increase student fees, drastically reduce the programs offered, freeze hiring of new professors, and cut back on pay raises for support workers.

The accounting firm PricewatershouseCoopers has recommended the cutbacks.

Students have held class boycotts and street actions. Three student leaders were banned from the campus for 20 days. On March 14, the Quebec Supreme Court granted a four-day injunction banning all protest activity within 100 meters of the university.

Rémi Daigle, internal affairs secretary for the Humanities Student Association, explained to the Militant that the administration “sees the university as a business that has to be profitable, like a hot dog production line, instead of being a place for social development.”

Daigle said the measures will “force those from working-class and disadvantaged milieus to abandon school.”  
 
 
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