(Quebec) Asked about the consequences of the shortage of manpower in the schools, Bernard Drainville sends the ball back to the Liberals while the former Minister of Finance, Carlos Leitão, admits regrets about the cuts in education.
Mr. Leitão said that, if he had to do it again, he would have been “more moderate” in controlling budgetary expenditure in education between 2014 and 2016, during an interview at the microphone of Radio-Canada. The restrictions have led to a brake on hiring in schools, he acknowledged. “That’s it, in education, I admit, that caused a lot of difficulties. »
This public release coincides with a series of news on the consequences of the shortage of labor in education. The Montreal School Services Center (CSSDM) has resigned itself to hiring teachers who are not legally qualified to teach the most vulnerable students, in special education, reports The Press. And the waiting times experienced by allophone students to obtain an education in French were also the subject of a text of the Montreal Journal.
The Minister of Education threw the ball back into the Liberals’ court. “Obviously, these departures have done enormous harm to the education system and since then, we have been catching up, denounced Mr. Drainville in a scrum to the press. We can say that today, we are still catching up with these massive departures that were caused by the austerity of the Liberals. »
As the Legault government begins a second term, Mr. Drainville defends the results of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ): “Since we have been there, spending on education, on average, has increased by $1 billion per year. »