Quebec says it will hike tuition by 30 percent for out-of-province Canadian students, to $12,000 a year, and wants most of them to speak French at an intermediate level by the time they graduate.
In a letter dated Dec. 14 to Quebec’s three English-language universities—Bishop’s, Concordia and McGill—Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry said the government is imposing the new measures so that anglophone Canadians better integrate into society.
