A Maple Fall in Quebec?
With protests in Quebec picking up, the 2012 student strikes might have been just the beginning of the anti-austerity struggle.
Last Saturday in Montreal, in front of throngs of cheering demonstrators, Daniel Boyer, president of the Fédération des Travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) declared, “I’m not going to say that this will be the last peaceful demonstration, but we’re moving toward more muscular tactics.”
Boyer’s remarks were just another sign of growing unrest in Quebec.
Saturday’s march brought 150,000 people — trade unionists, their families, and supporters — into the streets to protest Premier Philippe Couillard’s attack on public-sector workers and government services.
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