The PQ wants to increase the pride of young people in their territory

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Sunday, march 4 2018 17:56

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A government of the Parti québécois would bring $ 20 million annually to implement activities of discovery, familiarity and attachment to the territory in which young people live.

During a press conference Sunday in Montreal, the spokesman of the official opposition in terms of primary and secondary education and school retention, Carole Poirier, and the spokesman of national identity, Pascal Bérubé, explained that these activities be held within the framework of pilot projects aimed at students in the 2nd and 3rd cycles of primary school.

Ten half-days over three years would be devoted to these activities that would be offered in connection with, inter alia, the regional county municipalities (MRC) and the companies of local history. They will belong to the current domains “social Universe” and “Science and technology” or in the context of the course of citizenship education that the PQ wants to put in place to replace the current course “Ethics and religious culture”, according to the two deputies.

“Schools will participate in the pilot projects on a voluntary basis first, and then the activities will be extended gradually to the whole of Quebec, explained the mp, Poirier. These activities will be determined according to the needs and realities of the environments. We believe that this proposal will have a very positive impact on the knowledge of the identity and of the local and regional history of our youth.”

“We are inspired by the project to Teach the Kamouraska, bas-laurentian, developed by the MRC of Kamouraska and offered for the last 4 years, aims to increase the knowledge and pride of the youth of our land”, has, for its part, stressed Pascal Bérubé.