Montreal police use tear gas on protesting students; four injured

Four people were injured during student protests over tuition-fee hikes as clouds of tear gas wafted Wednesday over downtown Montreal.

All the injuries were minor, although two of the people – one police officer and one protester – were whisked to hospital by ambulance to be treated for trauma.

The scene in Montreal’s streets illustrated the increasingly bitter battle over fees, pitting the Charest government against those who deem the province’s rock-bottom tuition rates an inviolable principle.

It also served to underscore the intense student pushback that has discouraged Quebec governments of the past from increasing rates, which have remained frozen in the province for 33 of the past 43 years as authorities either avoided or abandoned plans for hikes.

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