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dhc-2 · 05-23-2012, 03:59 PM

I have been ignoring this for the most part, as is my habit when anything to do with Quebec is on the news, because it just gets my blood pressure rising.

But I caught a piece about it on CBC last night. If I understand correctly, this started when the government proposed tuition hikes (can't remember the initial figure), in a province with the lowest cost of post-secondary education in Canada (and far lower than in the USA). Students got mad, and the government revised their plan and eventually settled on $375 (per year, I believe) over 5 years. The students' response was to strike.

The couple of 'students' I saw being interviewed last night by the CBC seemed to be of the same species as the Occupy 'protesters' we witnessed a few months back. I kind of doubt this guy ever finished high school, so he probably couldn't get into post-secondary anyway, but I digress. He sort of side-stepped the reporter's question regarding what exactly he was protesting. He went off on some tangent about the Charter of Rights. This is the kind of thing that makes me hurl stuff at my TV and dislike the French (the European ones seem to be alright...). They already have it good, better than any of us, and then they go and #### their pants over nothing. The rest of Canada already doesn't like you, and this isn't helping. Just shut up and go away.

Nothing useful to the rest of Canada has ever come out of Quebec, except poutine, and we would've figured that out eventually anyway.

So to recap, I don't actually have much of a point other than to say this whole thing annoys me.

05-23-2012, 03:59 PM	#89
dhc-2 Farm Team Player Join Date: Mar 2012 Exp:	I have been ignoring this for the most part, as is my habit when anything to do with Quebec is on the news, because it just gets my blood pressure rising. But I caught a piece about it on CBC last night. If I understand correctly, this started when the government proposed tuition hikes (can't remember the initial figure), in a province with the lowest cost of post-secondary education in Canada (and far lower than in the USA). Students got mad, and the government revised their plan and eventually settled on $375 (per year, I believe) over 5 years. The students' response was to strike. The couple of 'students' I saw being interviewed last night by the CBC seemed to be of the same species as the Occupy 'protesters' we witnessed a few months back. I kind of doubt this guy ever finished high school, so he probably couldn't get into post-secondary anyway, but I digress. He sort of side-stepped the reporter's question regarding what exactly he was protesting. He went off on some tangent about the Charter of Rights. This is the kind of thing that makes me hurl stuff at my TV and dislike the French (the European ones seem to be alright...). They already have it good, better than any of us, and then they go and #### their pants over nothing. The rest of Canada already doesn't like you, and this isn't helping. Just shut up and go away. Nothing useful to the rest of Canada has ever come out of Quebec, except poutine, and we would've figured that out eventually anyway. So to recap, I don't actually have much of a point other than to say this whole thing annoys me.