University Affairs: Charest government weakened by Quebec student strike
With a brutal and prolonged strike by more than 170,000 university and college students finally winding down, administrators at dozens of Quebec campuses are now scrambling to salvage the winter term.
Yet it is Jean Charest’s Liberal government which has emerged from the conflict looking battered and bruised. After going 15 rounds with younger, fiercer and more agile adversaries, the Liberals caved to demands to restore $103 million in bursary funds. Now they may back away from what should have been the main event — ending the freeze on tuition, pegged at the bargain rate of $1,862 for more than a decade.
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