Quebec students to vote on resuming class

Quebec's students on strike will start voting this week on whether or not they'll  return to class. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)   

Quebec students went on strikes, about one-third of the student population, will now face a pivotal week as students start voting on whether to return to class.

Students in the CLASSE association will vote over a nine-day period, starting Tuesday, on heading back to school when it reopens mid-month.

An unpopular government, battered by ethics scandals, had increased the tuition by $1,778, or 82 per cent over seven years.


After a relatively tranquil summer, student protests that brought Montreal to a standstill are beginning to rev up to coincide with the return to class.

CLASSE, representing roughly half the students on strike, has one protest planned for mid-week. They are also organizing a much larger protest — a half-million-person gathering — for Aug. 22.