Early reports suggest students at oth CEGEP du Vieux Montréal and CEGEP St-Laurent voted today to end their class boycotts, which started earlier this year in opposition to a tuition increase. That would mean all of Quebec’s junior colleges will now reopen as an emergency law requires. Students at Vieux Montréal re-voted today, after the result of the first vote on Monday evening was a near tie. Jacob Serebrin captured the scene outside the college.
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- A few blocks from the school, a large number of police, including a riot squad, waited
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- A security guard prevented media from getting too close to the school’s entrance
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- A few students wore red squares, the symbol of the protest movement; most didn’t
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- A handfull of pro-boycott activists demonstrated outside the school
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- The assembly was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. but didn’t start until over an hour later
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- The line of students waiting to get in stretched almost an entire city block
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- Both votes at CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal drew large numbers
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- Pro and anti-boycott activists calmly handed out pamphlets
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- This young woman handed out a pro-boycott flyer
