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Treasury Board President Michelle Courchesne replaces Line Beauchamp as Quebec’s Education Minister and Deputy Premier. Beauchamp called it quits Monday saying she has done everything in her capacity to stop the riots and resolve students’ issues.
Beauchamp said: “I would never have reached a compromise with the students. So I am making the biggest compromise I can make.”
She said she does not see the support and trust from the student body anymore, therefore, she sees no point in staying at her post. However, she emphasized that the violent demonstrations have not intimidated her.
“I am not giving up in the face of vandalism and civil disobedience,” said Beauchamp, who will resign her Montreal-area seat. “I am resigning because I no longer believe I’m part of the solution.”
Courchesne would now be expected to bring an end to the historic student protests taking place in Montreal. Courchesne has previously held the seat of education minister from 2007 to 2010.
“I was presiding,” Courchesne said Monday, explaining the context. “I was there to ensure the talks went smoothly, to see that everyone had a chance to speak.”
Courchesne is to meet student leaders Tuesday to analyze the situation and come up with suggestions on how to develop a plan that can tone down the mass and satisfy the government.
“It’s a minority of people that are doing these things and so the government will act,” Charest said after a speech on his Plan Nord northern development project.
“We expect those judgments to be respected. No government, and certainly not my government, is going to accept violence and intimidation as a way of negotiation.”
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