Sonia LeBel does not intend to “completely reform the education system” because, according to her, it is “not broken”.
The Minister of Education made this statement on Tuesday during an accountability exercise at the National Assembly, where opposition parties questioned her about her priorities.
In her position for two months, LeBel stated from the outset on Tuesday that she had no “major priorities to announce”.
Rather, it will make efforts to “calm” the network, in a context where “100,000 students” have been added “since 2018” and Quebec’s budget situation is “difficult for everyone”.
“I will not be able to solve all the issues,” she said, adding that she wanted to “improve the lives of students with the resources we have.”
Earlier in the morning, Québec solidaire’s education spokesperson, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, held a press conference to demand “emergency funding” in order to “send reinforcements to schools.”
“There is an economic update coming. We need urgent reinvestment to add more people to our schools, to take care of the children,” he said.
Nadeau-Dubois said an “exodus” in education that was “far more disastrous for Quebec” than “the alleged exodus of a few dozen doctors.”
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
