If the Rest of Canada (ROC) needs a reminder of the different cultural mindset that exists in Quebec, particularly when it comes to entitlement, look no further than the collection of self-serving student drama queens violently striking over a modest rise in tuition fees.

Is it mayday in Quebec, or just May Day?

It's hard to tell since the NDP's socialist leader, Montreal's Thomas Mulcair, a former cabinet minister for Liberal Premier Jean Charest, has been mum since the outset of this 12-week fracas.

How come? Is Mulcair and his Quebec-based official Opposition simply afraid to express whose side they're on to Canadians because so many of them were recently students themselves?

But only in Quebec would a provincial government react to riots by submissively rolling over, throwing millions more into bursaries, and spreading the planned tuition increase over seven years, not five.

And then, only in Quebec would such acquiescence be rejected by students, most recently the hardline CLASSE student group.

Need we remind the ROC that tuition fees in Quebec have been all but frozen since the days following Expo '67, and that the "intolerable" 75% increase proposed through a phasing-in would raise basic undergraduate tuition fees to only $3,792 a year.

The ROC? $5,000-plus.

Even with the hike, it would leave Quebec's undergraduates paying under 18% of the costs of their education, yet they whine, bitch and riot -- with their left-wing professors egging them on, and shutting their classroom doors to those who want to learn.

Student debt is not new. Ask a creaky baby boomer about his or her student debt, and then ask why a third of today's graduates complain about having a hard time paying back student loans, despite low interest rates, compared to only a quarter of grads two or three decades ago.

Could it be the increased sense of entitlement of today? Could it be the fact that sacrifice is something that has become culturally foreign to these dweebs?

Could it be that their little world in Quebec owes them a living when no one else's does?

If and when these foolscappers ever graduate, will they even know the meaning of work?

Likely not this bunch.