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Originally Posted by OffsideSpecialist
The issue for me isn't them protesting, I can certainly sympathize with that. However, I certainly do not approve of the violence. Really, I think both sides of this are approaching the thing like idiots. The protests have gone from being peaceful and for a cause to violence for the hell of it. On the other side, the law passed from the government is questionable, and the authorities in that province seem to be best at getting people riled up and going full ######, they really have no ability to keep anything under control.
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The Quebec government actually negotiated with the student associations and were very reasonable stretching out the increase by an extra couple of years. the Students stupidly thought they had the government out of the barrel and rejected it out of hands and not only that, but didn't counter propose.
Then the moron running class basically said that he was pretty much ok with the violent actions of the protesters.
At that point the government should have stopped any additional negotiations.
As it is, the law that we put into place has been deemed as constitutional, the students bought it on themselves by either becoming violent or allowing their protests to become violent.
I don't know what else the government was suppossed to do. They approached the students to negotiate, they put an incredibly fair offer on the table and they had both efforts spat back in their face.
Until the law is struck down by the courts (I haven't seen a court challenge by the students yet. Even the lazy slogs of Occupy Calgary went to court) the students can keep defying the law, and the police will keep arresting the students and fining the crap out of them. Hopefully Quebec re-enforces the bans so that they can get some nice cars and laptops and houses out of it that they can auction off and put towards education.
While the government of Quebec is corrupt, inept, incompetant, slimy and cowardly, they've done the right thing in this tuition issue.