Students cost city $11.6 Million in SPVM overtime By P.A.Sévigny in The Suburban
According to the SPVM's own annual report, last year's student boycott movement managed to cost the city
over $11 M in assorted overtime fees as city police put in hundreds of hours on the street as a result of some 700 student protest marches
which continued to cause chaos and confusion within Montreal's downtown core. >
"No Canadian city, or American city has ever experienced so many daily demonstrations, "reads the SPVM report, "…over such a short period."
Aside from all the havoc the students caused to both normal traffic and assorted business interests located throughout the downtown core,
the report indicates that police carried out some 382 arrests for assorted criminal code violations after which they also wrote up
over 1711 tickets for assorted violations that were directly related to events that occurred during the almost daily demonstrations.
While some may consider arrests and assorted fines to be excessive, others believe the minimal legal repercussions
indicate that the city's police should be congratulated for both their restraint and the discipline which defined their approach
to what was essentially a democratic process and their relations with some of the city's citizens during a tense and difficult time.
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois sheds light on resignation
Protest showdown looming in Quebec: students headed there from outside province?
One student at Thursday's news conference said he expected help from two Toronto universities — York and the U of T —
as well as from Guelph, London, Kingston and Thunder Bay.
He said he also expected participants from New York University.
Tasha Kheiriddin: We don't need no solidarity with Quebec students
A choice between mob rule and democracy
Six miscues hamper students' cause
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As the strike drags on, its leaders have suffered from blatant overconfidence and failed to engineer an adequate exit strategy
If you don't agree with the decisions being made, vote them out.
That's the beauty of NOT living in a police state
