From the Archives:

Bouchard’s Youth Summit on Education

The Education Summit promised by the Parti Québécois is only weeks away.

Universities, student associations and the Education Minister are gearing up in a context of recent cuts to education for this fiscal year.

The fight over universities’ funding is recurrent in Quebec, and similar summits have happened before. In February 2000, the Bouchard government decided to organize a Youth Summit in Quebec City.

But the summit didn’t happen as planned.

Read more in our blog From the Archives to learn all about the protests, the politics and the shortcomings of the last summit on education.