From the CBC News:
Opposition parties in Quebec's National Assembly are vowing to fight plans to increase user fees, as the government considers digging into taxpayers' pockets to put the province back in the black.
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A proposal to introduce modest tuition fees for Quebec's currently free junior colleges has received a chilly reception from students and teachers groups.
"The goal of the creation of CEGEPs was to ensure the financial accessibility of post-secondary studies — that is why for more than 40 years, CEGEPs have been free," said Edenilson Castro, spokesman for the students association at Quebec's National Aerotechnical School, in Longueuil.
Micheline Thibodeau, vice-president for one of Quebec's teachers unions, called establishing fees for CEGEPs an "aberration."
"It seems that the Liberal Party lacks ideas at the moment, and the only thing it can think of is increasing tariffs," she said.
Robert Jean, director of Champlain-St-Lawrence College in Quebec City, said the time has come for students to pay for their CEGEP education.
"We have to realize that in the CEGEP system, we're running out of money. And where do we get the money?" The government said it would take some time to study the party's recommendations.
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