Will Quebec Students Still Tolerate CLASSE a Year Later??

Here is what I have discovered regarding the 2012 student protest against proposed tuition hikes which was sparked by Quebec Premier Charest asking that students pay their fair share.

It was this remark that sparked the protests last spring of 2012.

While the Quebecois Liberals offered to a tuition fee increase of $254 over seven years, Parti Quebecois's leader counter-offered to raise fees by $70 a year which would be $490.

Either way, Coalition large de l’ASSÉ (CLASSE) have demonstrated against the Liberal's offer and the PQ's coiunter-offer since 2012.

I agree that the fees are still the lowest in the world.

What good does it do to demand free tuition?

It may one day entail corporate sponsors applyings brand labels like "Rogers Auditorium for Higher Learning," in exchange for subsidizing higher education in Quebec at the cost of limiting the right to protest corporate sponsorship of post-secondary institutions.

Even worse: the current police "brutality" could lead to radicalization of a small part of CLASSE from protest of tuition fee increase to protest of corporate sponsorship in general in the fashion of "Black Bloc".

Personally though, I support the right of CLASSE to protest, despite their inflexibility. Freeing higher education of tuition fees is a noble cause.

Provided that the rights of students are not compromised regarding politics, the "no fees" demand requires a compromise consisting of increased corporate sponsorship.

As of the CLASSE protests, they have not died down, despite one of its leaders, ex-CLASSE spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, being jailed for a year for contempt of the court order (Bill 78), which made it illegal to block students not involved in protests to attend classes when the 2012-2013 year began in September.

At the same time, I also sympathize with the many students who just wanted to go to class without their rights being violated by student protests by CLASSE.

Translation en Français

Voici ce que j'ai découvert au sujet de la protestation étudiante contre les hausses de 2012 de scolarité proposées qui a été déclenché par le premier ministre Charest du Québec demande que les étudiants paient leur juste part.

C'est cette remarque qui a déclenché les protestations du printemps dernier de l'année 2012.

Alors que les libéraux québécois offert à une augmentation des frais de scolarité de 254 $ sur sept ans, leader du Parti québécois de contre-offre d'augmenter les frais de 70 $ par année, ce qui serait de 490 $.

De toute façon, la Coalition de l'ASSÉ grande (CLASSE) ont manifesté contre l'offre du Parti libéral et le PQ a coiunter-vente depuis 2012.

Je suis d'accord que les frais sont toujours les plus bas du monde.

A quoi bon faire pour réclamer la gratuité scolaire?

Il pourrait un jour entraîner sociétés commanditaires étiquettes de marque applyings comme "Auditorium Rogers pour l'Enseignement supérieur," en échange de subventionner l'enseignement supérieur au Québec au coût de la limitation du droit de manifester mécénat des établissements d'enseignement postsecondaire.

Pire encore: la police en cours "brutalité" pourrait conduire à la radicalisation d'une petite partie de la CLASSE de la protestation de l'augmentation des frais de scolarité pour protester du mécénat d'entreprise en général, à la manière des «Black Bloc».

Personnellement cependant, je soutiens le droit de CLASSE de protester, en dépit de leur manque de souplesse. Libérer l'enseignement supérieur des frais de scolarité est une noble cause.

À condition que les droits des étudiants ne sont pas compromis concernant la politique, le "sans frais" demande requiert un compromis consistant en commandite d'entreprise a augmenté.

Comme les protestations CLASSE, ils n'ont pas cessé, malgré l'un de ses dirigeants, ex-porte-parole de Gabriel Nadeau CLASSE-Dubois, étant emprisonné pendant un an pour outrage au tribunal pour (projet de loi 78), qui a rendu illégal pour bloquer les étudiants pas participé à des manifestations de suivre des cours lorsque l'année 2012-2013 a débuté en Septembre.

Dans le même temps, j'ai aussi sympathiser avec les nombreux étudiants qui voulaient aller en classe sans violation de leurs droits par des manifestations étudiantes de CLASSE.

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Reference:

2012 Quebec Student protest - Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests#Background

Ex-student spokesperson Nadeau-Dubois Guilty of Contempt of Court: http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/ex-student-spokesperson-nadeau-dubois-found-guilty/14042

Democracy gone Astray: Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois 'guilty' of contempt of court: Terrifying precedent for free speech: http://democracyastray.blogspot.com/2012/11/gabriel-nadeau-dubois-guilty-of.html

Rise Like Lions

The Montreal student uprising is predated by the writings of Montreal university student Jamaleddine.

Everyone remembers the 2000 G-20 protests in Montreal. During that protest, evidence of police brutality came to light.

12 years later, when the student protests over student fees arose in April 2012, it was met with the same level of police violence as in 2000.

After these protests died as winter drew near, Gilles Vaillancourt,
the mayor of Laval and Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal had resigned in the wake of corruption charges against them.

Thus, Jamaleddine's words are very prophetic.


“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.”

Post your Vs wherever adequate and repeat the words of ... Shelley.

Let it be your dream too, the day human kind joins in realizing we are bound by the same shackles.

Let North America be, once again, the model of freedom and bravery that it once was.

It is to every man and woman that has a yearning for liberty to rise and demand that our governing bodies remember that they are not to serve but we the people. -- Eyad Jamaleddine