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Signification du carré vert : Raison pour laquelle de nombreux étudiants sont opposés à la grève

  |  By Arielle Grenier

Le 30 mars 2011, le ministre des Finances du Québec, Raymond Bachand, annonçait que les étudiants devraient payer davantage pour leurs études universitaires, et que le financement des universités avait besoin d’une contribution plus élevée de la part des étudiants. À la suite de cette annonce, les associations étudiantes du Québec ont décidé de parler au nom de l’ensemble des étudiants, comme si, par pure magie, tous les étudiants avaient la même opinion.

Des étudiants pour la hausse? Le commencement.…

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Behind the Green Square: Why Many Students Opposed the Strike

  |  By Arielle Grenier

Check out Martin Robert’s support of the student strike. This article has been translated from the original French. Read the French version here.

On March 30, 2011, Quebec Minister of Finance, Raymond Bachand, announced that students would have to pay more for their university education, and that the funding of universities would require a greater contribution from students. Following this announcement, Quebec student associations decided to speak for all students, as if magically all students were of the …

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Equality of Opportunity, Equality of Means: An Argument for Low Tuition and the Student Strike

  |  By Daniel Weinstock

Read Jacob T. Levy’s take on this issue here.

Political philosophers have taken in recent years to distinguishing between “ideal theory” and “nonideal theory.” As I understand the distinction, the former has to do with the way we think that political institutions ought to be, were they to embody our preferred values perfectly. The latter pertains to the choices that we ought to make on specific issues of real-world political morality, given that our institutions are as they are—that is, …

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The High Cost of Low Tuition in Quebec

  |  By Jacob T. Levy

Read Daniel Weinstock’s take on this issue.

At this writing, the student unions’ boycott of classes in Quebec has ended in success. The boycott precipitated an early election that brought down Jean Charest’s PLQ government. His defense of higher tuition and his stand against the student unions—excessive and illiberal though it became— almost certainly helped him in the polls; the boycott was never popular among voters. Perhaps it even saved his party from the third-place finish and subsequent death spiral …

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Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary Education

  |  By Nick Falvo

On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference.  My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link.

Points I raised in the address include the following:

-Canada’s economy has been growing quite steadily over the past three decades, even when one adjusts for inflation, and even when one accounts for population growth. The exceptions, of course, occur during recessions.

-Yet, since the early 1980s, the federal government …

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