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Quebec imposes conditions on talks
QUEBEC -- The Quebec government has set strict conditions for any resumption of negotiations with student strike leaders: there will be no talk of a tuition freeze, and no question of scrapping a newly enacted emergency law.
Barring that, Education Minister Michelle Courchesne suggested she was ready to meet the students immediately -- "as early as today" -- under the right conditions.
"I'm not giving up. I'm very tenacious, very determined," Courchesne said. "I want to talk to them, and it's up to them to take some steps so that we might talk."
The relationship between student leaders and the government, rocky throughout the conflict, reached its nadir last week when the Charest Liberals enacted emergency legislation that student groups described as a declaration of war.
The emergency bill was designed to severely undermine student groups' ability to impose school shutdowns at faculties -- about one-third of them -- where students have voted to strike.
But the sides appeared to be talking Wednesday, with phone calls exchanged between the government and two of the three main student groups.
It's unclear what the sides might possibly discuss.
The government remains committed to tuition hikes, and the student groups remain staunchly opposed to them.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 24, 2012 A10
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