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Huge Student Protests in Canada

Contact | 19.05.2012 09:14 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Repression | Social Struggles

Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of war

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"Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of war... the government introduced the bill to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history" -

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/quebec-passes-student-protest-law

"Opposition leader Pauline Marois from the Parti Quebecois called for Mr Charest to hold elections because of the law's unpopularity. Ms Marois said Friday was "one of the darkest days of Quebec democracy"... Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, spokesman for Clase, a student group, called the law the "murder of the right to demonstrate"." -

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18121448

 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/montreal-police-arrest-122-after-student-protest.html

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19.05.2012 09:24



please move up as an addition

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oh really

19.05.2012 09:38

"Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of war... the government introduced the bill to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history" -

How can not giving people free money be called an "act of war"?
Really? I thought war was crawling along a battlefield through a barrage and putting your hand in the goo of what used to be your best mate's face. Students = sheltered upbringing with an overzealous sense of entitlement.

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act of war

19.05.2012 14:28

the provincial government if outlawing peaceful protest against the tuition fee increases. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" and all that.

Do admit its overly dramatic language, but not complete hyperbole .

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Yes, really.

19.05.2012 16:42

"I thought war was crawling along a battlefield through a barrage and putting your hand in the goo of what used to be your best mate's face. Students = sheltered upbringing with an overzealous sense of entitlement."

That sounds like the first world war you're describing there. Later wars usually entail sitting in an air-conditioned room hundreds of miles from the action bombing people remotely using a video console 'paddle' controller in between cups of coffee and TV episodes of "Heroes".

And those students will become the politico's and fiat-traders of the future...not to mention the nark. So their sense of entitlement should make them perfectly qualified then.

You just go on abusing them...works fine for us.

Blah de blah.

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you don't know shit

21.05.2012 17:01

>> That sounds like the first world war you're describing there. Later wars usually entail sitting in an air-conditioned room hundreds of miles from the action bombing people remotely using a video console 'paddle' controller in between cups of coffee and TV episodes of "Heroes".

Actually, they don't - get educated.
They usually revolve around driving around clearing up IEDs so that the native people can move back into their villages and use their market places

been there

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22.05.2012 19:45

"Actually, they don't - get educated.
They usually revolve around driving around clearing up IEDs so that the native people can move back into their villages and use their market places"

Who the hell do you think planted the IED's in the first place...eedjit!

Its true...one born every minute!

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22.05.2012 20:58

"Who the hell do you think planted the IED's in the first place...eedjit! "
You lot did!

stupid terrorist sympathiser

get some brain cells

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