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Wed May 23, 2012, 01:49 PM May 2012

Quebec protesters explain why they march


from the Montreal Gazette:




Luc Séguin, 54, labour relations worker, father of a high school student

“Since 1995, the government cut taxes to industries and the rich, so the proportion they pay is minimal compared to what a middle class family earning $100,000 pays — it’s us that’s taking the hit, and will continue forever to pay. Bill 78 is an anti-democratic law designed to muzzle the population. ... To put an end to the strike, the Liberals have to sit down and negotiate in good faith, and not like they did the last time, making an agreement, then announcing in the newspapers they’ve succeeded in screwing the students.”

.....(snip).....

Gabrielle Girard, 20, student in education at Université du Québec à Montréal, on strike since Feb. 23.

“We’re here to fight the tuition hike, but also the manner in which the Charest government has handled this. It’s three months we’ve protested in the streets, and the government won’t talk to us. ... I say either Charest finally talks to students, or he has to call an election to end all of this. Elections or negotiations. Otherwise, there’s no way out.”

.....(snip).....

Samuel René de Cotret, 27, Masters student in physics at Université de Sherbrooke

“We’re here to protest the tuition hikes and Bill 78, a totalitarian law that serves nothing but to inflame the tensions. And also to protest against several of the Charest government’s decisions that were taken unilaterally that don’t favour Quebec, but do favour private interests. .... The corruption of the Charest government concerns me, and I want elections to be called so we can clean house.”

.....(snip).....

Yoann Deguire, 17, clerk at Canadian Tire

“I’m here because I want to go to school, I’m against the tuition hikes, and I’m against Bill 78, that suppresses the right to freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate. A rise in tuition hikes doesn’t just affect students, it affects all of society. .... When you close the doors to a school, you open the doors to a prison.”


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Quebec+protesters+explain+they+march/6662035/story.html#ixzz1viTD0VKq




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