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All over the Province of Québec, hundreds or thousands of students have damaged a bit red square felt, at the same time as numerous more have been looking to obtain their hands on them. Red fabric is quasi-impossible to discover in Montreal in recent times.

The red square demonstrate unity with the student group, chiefly the up to date strike efforts by CEGEP, University and even some High School students in reply to the Charest Governments improvement to the loans/bursary scheme in addition to a crowd of reforms that will limit right of entry to education.

A hit is a last option. The student group had done phone campaigns, correspondence campaigns, big demonstrations in addition to protests, and negotiations with the administration throughout the Student Federations, all devoid of getting anyplace. Any development that may have existed vanished, as well, when a cabinet shuffle distorted the minister of Education from Pierre Reid to Jean-Marc Fournier.

At the moment, there are by now people who take lots of years to pay hush money to their student money owing, some even up to 10 years or more. With fewer bursaries, those people will be united by even more people, for a longer period of time. The poorest learners will either be required to reimburse their loans for years, or quit on the thought of post-secondary learning, returning institutions like McGill or Laval into places for the new-world Aristocracy.

The strikes have been going on for weeks; the learners are getting irritated at the lack of admiration and reply from the Government. Manifold last suggests from the Minister have been insulting to the students. The cash, they say, is simply found, if the PLQ just rolled back its tax cuts, or just get rid of tax credit for the biggest companies.