On thursday at Place of Emilien Gamelin The students began marching in the rain from Berri to Premier Charest's downtown office at 2:45 p.m.
Police proved unable to prevent protesting students from blocking Sherbrooke St.
near McGill College Thursday afternoon. The students danced and chanted slogans denouncing Liberal Premier Jean Charest. One chant translated as, "Charest you're a pig, we'll have your skin."Students waving signs, chanting and blasting horns, filled the streets of Montreal as part of a massive but largely peaceful provincewide protest against those planned hikes.
The Fees frozen for decades:
Tuition fees in Quebec have been frozen for 33 of the past 43 years, so Quebec's universities have welcomed the news of a tuition hike which will give them $850 million more in operating revenues over the next six years.Many students say Quebecers should be proud to have the lowest tuition in the country."Education is such a valuable resource in today's job market," said Dawson College student Benjamin Audet. "The people who are in power now and making these laws benefited from this cheap access to education."
There have been multiple protests since the Charest government announced the 
measure last year, including at Liberal caucus meetings and outside cabinet ministerial offices, all to no effect.More than 200,000 college and university students voted in favour of boycotting classes and some later blocked access at Montreal institutions early Thursday. There were reports that others who wanted to go to class were prevented from entering.
Representatives from the rally said that it was one of the biggest student protests in provincial history. They estimated that the rally attracted 30,000 students.The crowd began to disperse around 4:30 p.m. but the Montreal riot police remained present as some students remained and taunted the officers.
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