SPVM begins crackdown on student movement

Montreal police are cracking down heavily on the student movement.

In a report by the Canadian University Press, SPVM officers who dealt with the protests stemming from tuition increases by the Liberal party last spring, put an end to the latest march on March 22nd in ten minutes.

Students are on the streets once again, to denounce the tuition increase of 70 dollars a year over the next five years put in place by the Parti Quebecois during the summit on higher education last month.

Once the summit ended, every protest ended in mass arrests, something that did not occur last year during the maple spring movement.

Those marches although deemed illegal with the bylaw passed by the then ruling Liberals were allowed to march for hours on end by the police. Arrests were made on only a few occasions.

On March 22nd, 2012, it marked the first of many nightly protests organised by student unions to denounce the tuition hike in which 200 000 people took part.

This year on the same date, protesting the P.Q.'s recent ruling, 300 people began a march only to be stopped by officers 10 minutes later, and resulted in the protest of 200 people.

Flickr Photo by: Viola Ng