Maple Spring: 'Canada vs totalitarian govt crackdown'

Nearly 700 arrests have been made overnight in Canada, during the latest protest in Quebec against a huge planned rise in student tuition fees. The rallies have been on-going for more than 100 days. Police in Montreal dispersed unsanctioned protests and arrested 518 demonstrators on Wednesday night. The arrests were also made in Quebec City, where some 170 were detained, and in Sherbrooke. There were no reports of injuries or casualties.

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Andrew Gavin Marshall talks to RT. He explains that the situation in Quebec is only part of a huge social protest.

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[Wilhelm VonRoefelz]

*Quebec vs totalitarian govt crackdown; Canadians are just servile british subjects

[Cloxxki]

Not sure how I came here. Any updated for the past year?

[LUCA7FOLD]

Hey Rightwingers: please stop being so f*****g ignorant.

[TheTourlous]

well, at least you wrote your comment in French....pfffffffffffff.

[tuck295q]

Usually it's a nice idea for innovative corporation in technologies to build their own education to train their own staffs. It's actually a way better idea than having government invests in education.

[jimmy Roodny]

Education should be paid by the riches generated in the country. The top rich 5% should pay for education in the form of taxes.

[Talvrae]

The spirit of the 60s is the one who have brought us to our knees in Québec it need to change

[Talvrae]

I'm actually from Québec, and the tution fee last years wsnt right, it was under a modatoire preventing the gouvernementto be able to increase the tuition, in the last 40years the fee was frozen about 35 years in thouse 40years, the university are heavy under finnanced. But each time they tried to increase the tuition fee it was meet by resistence by the students and syndicates.... And on that law... The law is worse in Geneva the house of the UN

[librazone]

Actually if there was a more important event taking place in the world we wouldnt even be hearing about this stupid protest. No english students and 70 percent of french students could care less about protesting. Moreover since these protesters are mainly philosophy and sociology students or areas with little prospects for employment then they will probably be protesting for the rest of their lives.