About 200 Toronto students took to the streets Tuesday evening to march in a show of solidarity with ongoing student protests in Montreal.
The students met downtown at George Brown College around 8 p.m. and made their way to Ryerson University, blocking traffic along the way.
Many wore red squares pinned to their shirts, a symbol of the student movement that has become commonplace in Montreal. Thousands of students have marched in the streets of Montreal for 43 consecutive nights to fight the province's plan to increase tuition gradually over seven years.
Toronto marchers also banged on pots and pans, something protesters in Montreal have began to do in the past week.
"The message that we are sending is that the tuition rates that we pay are just unacceptable," one of the protestors told CP24.
"The message we are sending is we will do anything," she said. "We will do anything to stop tuition rates from hiking, as they have done in Quebec."
Protesters said besides showing solidarity with Quebec students, they were also demanding an end to unfair student debt and protesting high tuition and rising fees in Ontario.
This is the second student solidarity march in Toronto, with an earlier march taking place on May 30.
In Montreal, the protests have swelled in size since Quebec Premier Jean Charest and his Liberal Party introduced and passed Bill 78, an emergency law that forbids anyone from blocking a student's access to a university and places restrictions on marches, among other measures.
