Over 200 Québec paramedic students are unable to access internships due to an ongoing labour dispute between the CSN union representing paramedics and the province. The Fédération des cégeps said that students have had to delay their graduation because of the dispute, and that the number will grow as the province’s 800 paramedic students pass through their programs. The CSN union representing paramedics explained that withholding internships is one of the few pressure tactics they are legally allowed to use in negotiations. “All of our pressure tactics are actually evaluated by a judge who is going to look at the impact that it’s going to have on the population and has to be accepted by them before we can put them into effect,” concluded CSN union representative Charles Duff Murdoch.
