The opposition wants to continue his studies

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Jacques Gingras (left) is that the Quebec act be amended so that his son Olivier, a quadriplegic, can continue to get the help of the State while attending school.

Yanick Fish

Tuesday, 29 August, 2017 21:06

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Tuesday, 29 August, 2017 21:06

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The Parti québécois and the Coalition avenir Québec have required the government to Couillard he recover the aid paid to a quadriplegic who had been deprived because he has decided to go to cegep.

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Olivier Gingras, 21 years old, has lost the use of his arms and his legs in 2009 after diving into a shallow lake. Paralyzed of all four limbs, he has to wear diapers.

Since his accident, he receives help from Quebec because he has severe limitations to employment. He pays particular diapers and medical equipment.

But since he attended the college from 2016, it can no longer receive financial aid. Quebec asks for the same the sum of $ 7,000, he would have received when he went to school, as reported in The Newspaper Tuesday.

Aberrant

The family of Mr. Gingras is fighting so that he may continue to receive assistance from the social solidarity program while going to college.

His father, Jacques Gingras, complains in particular of the officials of the ministry of social Solidarity, that would take in to give them the information or confusingly.

The spokesperson for the Coalition avenir Québec in the field of education, Jean-François Roberge, referred to as “aberrant” that the ministry had withdrawn the subsidies to Olivier Gingras because he was attending the college.

He puts the blame on the heaviness of the machine québec public, which is inflexible when special cases arise.

“It is a great demonstration of a government mired in bureaucracy. There is a lack of consistency. In a case like this, it is common sense that must prevail. We can not predict all of the exceptions, but it is necessary to give autonomy to the decision-makers to accommodate these cases. It is necessary that the system be at the service of citizens “, he said.

The member pq for Lac-Saint-Jean, Alexandre Cloutier, said he was outraged by the decision to cut the grant for the quadriplegic and charge the sums paid during their studies.

“It penalizes someone who is already penalized because he wants to go further in his studies. This is outrageous. It demonstrates to what point the system is inhuman. For me, it is a great injustice “, he said.

The two members intend to put pressure on the government so that it regularizes the situation.

Despite our appeals, the minister of Labour, Employment and social Solidarity, François Blais, has not explained the decision merdi.