Sunday, May 20, 2012

Montreal in flames; it's not about tuition, stupid!

Two weeks ago I was listening to the vexingly verbose Rex Murphy rant about the spoiled brats who were rioting in the streets of Quebec over a tuition increase.

Don't they know how lucky they are?.. they'll still have the lowest tuition in the land!... Ingrates, every one of them!

The opprobrium was palpable, even over the car radio.

Two weeks have passed and those spoiled brats are still in the streets. The ever-inept Charest government has now poured gasoline on the bonfires by passing the most draconian anti-protest laws since the FLQ crisis.

The long and the short of it is that any protest gathering must be approved in advance by the police. In other words, protest will be tolerated at the discretion of your local police chief and his or her political bosses.

Is that not the very definition of a police state?

These protests have only peripherally been about tuition hikes. Rather, they are about a host of grievances with the status quo of which tuition hikes were merely a symptom.

These protests are a promising sign that a new generation is shaking off their media-induced stupor and telling the power elite that things will have to change.

This is Quebec Spring.

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