Angry over education budget cuts, parents gathered Sunday afternoon in Montreal to make their voices — and their frustration — heard, saying the system is “running on fumes.”

“Parents aren’t fooled,” said Geneviève Simon Potvin, a mother of two high school students, during a morning news conference outside the Ministry of Education offices.

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“We no longer believe a word the minister says when he claims money is being reinvested in schools. What we see on the ground is a system in desperate need

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