Common Dreams reports the new Premier Pauline Marois announcing that the tuition hikes will be rolled back. Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein tweets: "This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win." RT reports several hundred taking to the streets to demonstrate for free education through the university level.
A spokesperson for Pauline Marois also recently announced that Gentilly-2 nuclear power plant would be closed. Subject of a new documentary, the decision has been hailed by numerous scientific and environmental groups. Activists have been working to close the plant for decades, and since radiation poisoning to families in the surrounding community was discovered. Quebec seems to be entering a very exciting period of progress bound to inspire further. Once again, history is on the side of the People.
The Parti Québécois states plans to go ahead and close Quebec's only nuclear power plant, Gentilly-2. Party spokesperson Éric Gamache said that it is something they have wanted to do since 2009, and that such action does not require a vote in the National Assembly where they are otherwise a minority. The nuclear plant is the subject of a documentary premiere, Gentilly Or Not To Be. From the Montreal Gazette:
The film, by Montreal filmmakers Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel, cites a
German studying showing there are higher-than-normal cancer rates among
children living in proximity to nuclear power plants.
Montreal
doctor Éric Notebeart, a professor in medicine at the Université de
Montréal and member of Physicians for Global Survival, said Tuesday that
children and young families should not live close to the Gentilly 2
power plant.
“I wouldn’t have a young family within 10 kilometres of Gentilly 2,
that’s for sure,” said Notebeart, adding he believes the facility should
be closed.
Notebeart is a member of a coalition of groups that held a news conference Tuesday asking Marois to shut down the plant.
Ya know, it's almost surreal to read anyone in politics stating that they are actually going to (just) do the right thing, for a change. ("Whadya mean they're going to (just) close it??? They're not gonna keep it open while people are poisoned and die and someone makes millions and billions of dollars? And while we endlessly plead and reason and petition to deaf ears and no avail? I don't think I can stand the sanity!")
