Pauline Marois: Student Protest Movement

The Red Square Dept: MONTREAL - A decision by Pauline Marois to quit wearing the red square symbol of the student protest movement was met with a shrug at the nightly anti-tuition increase demonstration in Montreal Wednesday night, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "It doesn't surprise me that Pauline Marois decided to stop wearing the red square because it wasn't real support for the students," said Francis Piche, a junior college student. "The only reason she was opposing the tuition fee increase was because the Liberals were doing it but a Pequiste government wanted to do it too and pQ Leader Pauline Marois wearing the red square on May 15, 2012 at the legislature in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot Some marchers who sported the small felt square on their clothes felt that the Parti Quebecois leader had embraced the symbol out of political expediency and was shelving it for the same reasons. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.