U of S student union does not support Montreal tuition protest actions
Protestors went through hallways of a Montreal university disrupting classes, spray-painting messages on classrooms and calling students names. They say they want all students to go on strike, but some want to return to class.
“There's going to be people who are going to elect to go back to class. It's as simple as that. To go in and disrupt what they're trying to do, I definitely can't support that,” said Jared Brown, president of University of Saskatchewan Student Union.
The U of S is going through an average four-and-a-half per cent tuition increase. In Quebec, tuition is going up by as much as 75 per cent.
However, Brown says right now tuition in Quebec is about half of what it is in Saskatchewan.