(Quebec) The Minister of Higher Education, Danielle McCann, confirmed Tuesday that she was putting an end to the expansion project of Dawson College in Montreal.
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The Legault government had however defended in recent months this project of the English-speaking CEGEP in the city center, the cost of which has been estimated at 100 million. The expansion project had also been selected by Quebec to be included in the infrastructure projects to be carried out on an accelerated basis.
In a brief press scrum at the National Assembly, Mr.me McCann said she would work with Dawson College management to find “alternatives.”
“We will support them, we will make a good assessment and we will help them. We will surely be able to explore alternatives […]including rental [de locaux] to really give oxygen, give space,” she said.
Over the past few months, the government has been regularly hounded by the Parti Québécois about this expansion project. “The Legault government finances our own assimilation with public funds, while the situation [linguistique)] is already problematic,” PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has already denounced.
In the past, the government and the Cégep have defended that the expansion would serve to accommodate the current clientele who lack space rather than to accommodate a greater number of students. Quebec also plans in its reform of Bill 101 to limit the growth of the student population of English-speaking CEGEPs in the province.
with The Canadian Press