School boards, teachers and parents are furious with François Legault’s government for cutting $570 million from the province’s current year education budget.
Services to students, they argue, will inevitably suffer. The cutbacks having been announced without warning, the anger is understandable. However, Quebecers would do well to get used to such financial restrictions: the province’s fiscal situation is dire, and at this stage, there is no other choice but to slow the rise in expenditures, especially for the two largest parts of the budget by far, that is health care (44 per cent) and education (15 per cent).
