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Opinion: François Legault’s ‘targeted attack’ on McGill and Concordia is trademark wedge politics
Interim Quebec Liberal Party Leader Marc Tanguay was mostly correct last week when he described Premier François Legault’s move to raise tuition fees and French-language requirements for out-of-province students at Quebec’s leading English-language universities as an act of “self-sabotage.”
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