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Title: Afternoon student rally in Montreal attracts thousands | CTV News
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Guy_Fawkes
Date: 2012-06-02 16:07:32
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

It seems people protest these days just for the sake of going for a walk while yelling. The few protests I have seen had more happy faces gabbing between each other and smiling then actual expression of frustration or anger.

[Bodah]

Hey Hey, ho ho... give us more free shit or we're going to go....
Hey Hey, ho ho... give us more free shit or we're going to go....
Hey Hey, ho ho... give us more free shit or we're going to go....

Bye.

[Saffron]

Those students are REALLY starting to piss people off. They're threatening to shut down the Formula One, the Jazz Festival, and other money money-makers for the city. The government has been more than generous, offering a 50 cents a day increase over 7 years and increased bursaries, but that's not good enough. The students sit in Starbucks, organizing protests on their iphones, drinking $7 lattes and bitching.
Well, guess what? I don't want to have to pay more for healthcare, sustenance or a roof over my head, but I do it, because that's life. Maybe we should all go out and protest....everything should be free. Maybe the magic money fairy can come down and sprinkle magic money dust over the province, and everything will be OK.
Idiots.

[Unsound]

[meagan]

Yes! it definitely is getting annoying to see so many protesting all the time because thy think they should be able to have everything they want. In my day, we just knew that if you couldn't afford something that was the way it was. We didn't expect to be able to do what the rich did. We accepted our lot in life. That's life.

For example -- I often watch "house International" on TV. I find it very interesting to see houses and apartments all over the world. It's amazing though to see what people in America or Canada expect/demand. They demand perfection. Most are not willing to put one tiny bit of effort into anything. They would not even think of painting a wall themselves. If they don't like the colors they won't buy unless the seller comes down in price to compensate for them having to hire someone to redecorate and of course everything (appliances) have to be the very latest and biggest. Very few would think that maybe they could "settle" for something that needs a tiny bit of redoing and maybe do it as they can afford it.
Most of the houses are what we used to call mansions. What used to be what only the very rich could afford is now "normal" for everyone. How things have changed in this day of "entitlement" and instant gratification.

As it was pointed out, these young ones that love to protest everything and complain about the cost of everything while they have thier $7 Lattes everyday and $400. apps and fancy cars are getting just a wee bit tiresome.

[Saffron]

Yes! it definitely is getting annoying to see so many protesting all the time because thy think they should be able to have everything they want. In my day, we just knew that if you couldn't afford something that was the way it was. We didn't expect to be able to do what the rich did. We accepted our lot in life. That's life.
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Thing is, they CAN afford it. Quebec has the cheapest tuition in North America. I managed to pay for my degree just by working part-time in a doughnut shop. On top of that, there is a legion of bursaries for kids if they, or their parents, really can't afford it.

[meagan]

Then what the heck are these riots all about?

[Saffron]

It's about spoiled kids having nothing better to do. The government wants to hike tuition to the tune of $1625 over the course of seven years. It's a pittance.
They've been protesting for four months straight. Closing streets, setting cop cars on fire, smoke bombs in the subway, crippling of the downtown core, driving away tourists. There have been hundreds of arrests. We're sick of it. There's a line in the sand and neither side wants to give in.
The government of Quebec has been more than compromising....not good enough.

[Saffron]

Many are anarchists wearing masks, so a new law was passed banning the masks. That opened up a whole new can of worms.
Many are still wearing masks and nothing else.

[jeff744]

By December the lack of paid tuitions will have ended the 'student' part of the protests.

[Bodah]

Time to end transfer payments, it's was only suppose to be temporary anyways.

[Zipperfish]

I think this has grown past just tuition fees. Frankly a little rebellion is quite useful now and then. I hope it catches on in other provinces.

[Zipperfish]

I think this has grown past just tuition fees. Frankly a little rebellion is quite useful now and then. I hope it catches on in other provinces.

[jeff744]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I think this has grown past just tuition fees. Frankly a little rebellion is quite useful now and then. I hope it catches on in other provinces.

In the west a rebellion would be against Quebec, demanding they get no special treatment or that the other provinces get the same powers as Quebec has and that the extra funding be cut off as the general view is that Quebec is a black hole that just absorbs money and only talk to the rest of Canada long enough to demand more.