Anglo universities: less cash, more French
The CAQ is now saying that Canadian students will be paying $12,000 per year at anglo universities, but that 80% of their students will have to be francisé.
$3000 of each payment will be taken by Quebec to fund French‑language universities.
Update: The BBC covers the story.
Uatu 11:31 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
They’ve also given a big discount to students from Belgium and France according to the latest news. It’d be a lot easier to just say “only white french people wanted. Everyone else stay out”.
Joey 12:30 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
Going back to a policy that discriminates against Francophones living in Ottawa to subsidize Belgians – when you definitely haven’t lost the plot.
azrhey 12:34 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
they should star by making sure québecois students out of high school are francisés too!
qatzelok 12:55 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
French-language teachers will get a major boost from this educational funding reform. And that money that will be raised is needed to improve funding to Quebec public schools.
I’d like to see the CAQ follow up by reducing the subsidies to religious and private schools and plowing this money back into the public education sector.
This might also improve their image by reducing the perception of the CAQ as “a party of infra privatization.”
Kevin 13:15 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
If it was just about money, the CAQ would just [i]give French universities more money.[/i]
But it’s not about money. It’s about punishing a scapegoat for the collective decision of francophones to leave the island of Montreal.
Meezly 13:18 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
If the CAQ had any interest in reducing the perception of them as “a party of infra privatization”, the negotiations between the FAE/CF and the CAQ would’ve been resolved by now.
Legault’s attempt yesterday to divide the unions by giving a false sense of hope that the strike was ending made it clear he doesn’t care about the future of education and healthcare. Even though his approval rating had dropped signifcantly after he made that “emotional blackmail” remark a week ago, it doesn’t seem like he wants to salvage his reputation either.
I don’t get it, and I’m beginning to wonder whether he’s taking this personally, which may be a good thing about the future of the CAQ, but not for the teachers and families who are struggling with the 4th week of the strike
Kevin 14:30 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
le sigh. Someday I’ll remember which brackets to use when i want to italicize something on this blog
rob 14:45 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
I wonder if a policy like this could be used to pull money from all private schools into public school?
And while we`re at it, lets take a piece of all private healthcares profits to put into public healthcare.
Nicholas 15:32 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
One odd note is that for Belgians, the reduced rate only applies to Francophones, not Dutch or German mother tongue people, unless they went to a French secondary or post-secondary institution. As well, Canadian-French and Canadian-Belgian dual citizens are ineligible (which didn’t matter when out-of-province paid the same rate, but now, again, they’ll pay more than those two foreign groups).
Ian 20:10 on 2023-12-14 Permalink
@qatzi
“French-language teachers will get a major boost from this educational funding reform. And that money that will be raised is needed to improve funding to Quebec public schools.”
Don’t bet on it. Besides the ridiculous notion that taking money from McGill will somehow make UQAM a better school, remember what happened with all that federal money earmarked for education during covid that Legault and his crew happily accepted then didn’t spend on education? None of this extra tuition will be given directly to Francophone universities. It will be put in a general fund that will magically empty out every year with nothing to show for it. Or yeah, we could just give money straight to UQAM and let them finish Îlot Voyageur.
No tliek any of it matters, with the tuition increase and the level 6 French it’s a safe bet that most “foreign” students will simply go elsewhere. Rents in Montreal aren’t so cheap as to make U of T implausible anymore.
Tim S. 09:06 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
I’m still waiting for the government PSA campaign urging young francophones to become French teachers and not say, real estate agents. Sure, they won’t get to drive around in BMWs and they’ll spend their Christmases picketing instead of fancy parties at downtown hotels, but it’s for the greater good, right?
Meezly 10:40 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
@Ian, I think that $85M emergency fund was supposed to go into covid support measures, and it only worked out to $8K per school, so it wasn’t exactly a huge amount. But still, the EMSB managed to implement air filtering systems in their schools, while it seemed that barely any were installed in French-language ones.
Daniel 10:44 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
I guess Legault didn’t get the memo that, per the NYT, “More than 60 percent of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80 percent of children studying in French are in Africa.”
Or he got it but is on his own thing. 😐
MarcG 11:57 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
@Meezly: Do you have evidence for the EMSB air filter updates that I could look at?
Meezly 12:32 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
If you do a google search for “EMSB schools air purifiers”, you’ll get quite a few hits from various media sources.
https://www.emsb.qc.ca/emsb/articles/emsb-to-purchase-air-purifiers-for-school-buildings-without-mechanical-ventilation
qatzelok 12:52 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
@Daniel: “More than 60 percent of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80 percent of children studying in French are in Africa.”
This means that Quebec should be hosting a lot more African students under its new system of financing. This is an excellent thing for both African students and for Montreal.
dwgs 13:50 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
Yes qatzelok, they should be and it would be an excellent thing but we all know it will never ever happen.
Ian 19:08 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
If Papa Legault considers English-speaking Canadians “foreigners” that are destroying Quebec culture simply by existing in Montreal, I can only imagine what he thinks of people that aren’t from white-majority French-speaking countries. Besides those Haitians who can’t sponsor their families, anyhow. Of course according to Papa there’s no such thing as systemic discrimination here though so …
Pretty wild that dual French/ Canadian and Belgian/ Canadian dual citizens, Flemings and Ostbelgien Walloons don’t get the tuition break.