Quebec students reject tuition fee deal

For the second consecutive day, student associations last week voted almost unanimously against a tentative agreement with the government and supported further strike action as the wave of protest against last weekend’s deal on tuition fee hikes appeared unstoppable, writes Rhéal Séguin for the Globe and Mail.

As the strike entered the 13th week, the crisis was hitting community colleges the hardest. Strike votes in universities occur within each faculty and department, while they are taken in community colleges as a whole, paralysing entire institutions and potentially impacting on the lives of thousands of students for months to come.

“Students are beginning to panic. Some have come to see me with tears in their eyes fearful of losing their session,” said Pierre Leblanc, director of the St-Hyacinthe College of general and vocational education known under the French acronym CEGEP. He made the comments to journalists after students at the CEGEP voted more than 60% against the agreement.
Full report on the Globe and Mail site