The schools made the proposal to convince the government to backtrack on its plan to double tuition for Canadian students from outside Quebec — to $17,000 from about $9,000. Quebec wants to price English-language universities out of the market for many Canadian students as a way to reduce their numbers in the province and protect the French language.
"Now, we're sticking to our principles: it's not up to Quebec taxpayers to finance the training of thousands of Canadian students from outside Quebec," she said, referring to the government's claim that the current $9,000 tuition is about half of what it costs the province to educate a university student.
Earlier in the day, the heads of McGill University and Concordia University and Bishop's said they would "substantially" increase the number of French courses they offer if current tuition rates were maintained. They told Quebec Premier François Legault and Déry that the plan included incentives to learn French for students from outside the province and mandatory French classes at the two Montreal universities.
Legault has said that 25 per cent of the province's university students attend English universities, which is "a bit too much."
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