'No other choice': Concordia spent $780,000 on legal fight over Quebec tuition overhaul

Cash-strapped Concordia has spent $780,000 on legal fees to fight Quebec’s tuition and funding overhaul targeting English universities, The Gazette has learned. The university disclosed the two-year total in response to an access-to-information request. The disclosure comes as the Coalition Avenir Québec government considers a move to bar taxpayer-funded institutions from suing the government. The outlay for work by two law firms comes even as the university faces deep financial tro