Reference Material

• 2024-02-04, The Globe and Mail: Quebec going ahead with out-of-province tuition hikes despite advisory body concern

  • “Quebec is moving forward with a plan to hike tuition for out-of-province Canadian students by about 30 per cent, despite a letter from a government-mandated advisory committee urging them to reconsider.”

  2024-01-29, The Gazette: Concordia students set to strike to protest against tuition hike: 'We're not going to sit back'

• “Thousands of Concordia students are set to strike for three days this week, saying they’re worried a 33 per cent tuition hike for out-of-province students will reduce accessibility and further damage the university’s shaky finances.”

• 2023-12-14, CBC: Quebec reduces tuition hike for out-of-province students, but they'll have to learn French

• “Quebec's three English-language universities — McGill, Concordia and Bishop's — will have to ensure that 80 per cent of their out-of-province and international students learn French. Those students will need to demonstrate a Level 5 oral proficiency — essentially the ability to hold a conversation — by the end of their undergraduate studies.”

• 2023-11-22, MacLean’s: “Financially, it would be catastrophic”: A university principal on Quebec’s tuition hikes

• “Sébastien Lebel-Grenier, principal and vice-chancellor at Bishop’s University, says that Bishop’s could lose 90 per cent of its out-of-province students—forcing the university to slash a quarter of its budget”

• 2023, Government of Canada: Budget 2023: A Made-in-Canada Plan

• “The Action Plan for Official Languages, 2023-28 will implement the federal government's commitments to ensure the equality of English and French, help to increase the demographic weight of Francophones and restore the size of Francophone communities, increase the rate of bilingualism, and better support official language minority communities.”

• 2023, Government of Canada: Action Plan for Official Languages 2023-2028: Protection-Promotion-Collaboration

• “The challenges and priorities of Quebec’s English-speaking communities differ from those of Francophone minority communities. The Government of Canada is aware of these differences. In implementing the initiatives in support of official language minority communities, it will therefore be important to consider these differences and the diversity of official language communities, whose challenges and priorities vary from one geographic region of Quebec to another, for both Francophones and English-speaking communities across Canada.”