Education Minister is ready to talk

11 weeks into the strike that has sent Quebec universities into a frenzy has finally reached negotiations. Education Minister Line Beauchamp says she will meet with the three main student groups if they agree to halt protests for forty-eight hours. 

The largest student group CLASSE say they do not have the power to force their nearly two hundred thousand members to stop demonstrating. But there are no major actions planned over the next couple days so there will be a de facto truce.

Even though meetings are set to take place Tuesday and Wednesday the government has vowed not to discuss the tuition fee hike of $1625 – something that the student groups undoubtedly disagree with.