All Posts Tagged With: "Quebec boycotts"
Get ready for a long summer in Quebec
May 15th, 2012 • Jacob Serebrin
New education minister is a familiar face
Photo by Jacob Serebrin
With student groups representing over 160,000 students still enforcing boycotts, Quebec’s “maple spring” looks like it will turn into a long summer.
On Monday, Quebec’s education minister Line Beauchamp resigned suddenly. In her resignation speech, Beauchamp blamed student leaders for being unwilling to compromise. That’s after she spent the previous week saying that she would only discuss small details of the tentative agreement made on May 5, which fell apart after it was rejected by most student associations.
