Loophole found in French tuition deal
Quebec offers a nice university tuition deal to students with French citizenship. Seems like a way to boost French, but the Gazette finds that there’s no certainty these students even speak the language: people with citizenship but no French at all are taking advantage. Some even speak English! And their French isn’t tested for.
Joey 11:07 on 2025-04-01 Permalink
I wonder if there will be a moment relatively soon, after the premiers have together slayed the mythical beast known as ‘internal barriers to trade,’ when they’ll turn their attention to issues like this – interprovincial discrimination for citizen services. It’s absurd that an Anglophone US/French dual citizen pays less tuition than a Francophone New Brunswicker, no?
Nicholas 11:50 on 2025-04-01 Permalink
Also Walloons get the same deal, but Flemish don’t. Nothing about Switzerland.
bob 12:00 on 2025-04-01 Permalink
It’s absurd that we can’t have any proper federal policies about anything because the constitution was created when the “country” was a bunch of economically and socially isolated colonies in an age before electricity. It’s also absurd that we have absolutely no protection of fundamental human rights because any law can violate the core of the Charter at will.
Ian 16:37 on 2025-04-01 Permalink
Our constitutiion was only patriated in 1982. It was only then that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted.