QUEBEC – The tuition increase that triggered social strife in Quebec was kicked to the curb during the first full day in office for the Parti Quebecois government.
   
The new government repealed the fee hike by decree in its first cabinet meeting less than 24 hours after coming to power.
   
Student leaders cheered the news, with one calling the decision a ”triumph of justice and equity.”
   
Premier Pauline Marois had promised during her campaign to cancel the increase.
   
She says tuition will go back to two-thousand-168 dollars — the lowest in Canada.
   
Had the planned increases gone through, tuition would have been 600 dollars higher this year and would have kept growing each year.
   
Marois says she won’t decrease university funding and will make good on a promise to hold a summit on how to fund universities within her first 100 days as premier.