(TORONTO, ON) — Re “Self-righteous protesters trample others’ rights” (May 23):
Dear Toronto Sun Editor,
Megan Harris appears blind to her own double standard. She complains about the efforts of students to bring accessible post-secondary education to Ontario, then she admits to moving from Toronto in 1990 to study at a much more affordable Montreal university where she escaped Ontario’s punishingly high tuition fees. For 14 weeks, more than 150,000 striking college and university students have been joined by thousands of citizens of all ages and backgrounds in overwhelmingly peaceful protests against the plan of Quebec Premier Jean Charest to double tuition fees. Charest has attempted to silence their dissent by introducing the most draconian law since the War Measures Act to strip every Quebecer (not just student protesters) of their rights to free expression, association and peaceful assembly. Civil liberties and access to education are both cornerstones of any democracy and it behooves us all to peacefully defy any government that unjustly seeks to limit them.
Sid Ryan
President, Ontario Federation of Labour
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