College and university education is available in all MRC’s, and some fields of study are often exclusive to the region. Just think of the Cégep technical programs in pre-hospital emergency care, industrial electronics, early childhood education or industrial maintenance mechanics, or of UQAT’s programs in mineral engineering, interactive multimedia authoring, journalism or accounting sciences. Furthermore, the University is brilliantly breaking new ground with the First Nations Pavilion, which will offer higher education to Aboriginal people from all over Quebec and Eastern Canada.

We have such an unquenchable thirst to learn more about our territory that renowned research chairs are studying ways to protect and promote it, especially in matters of forestry, agri-food, mining engineering, underground telecommunications, development of wood products and water resources. Because freedom also means understanding the world around us, managing it astutely and sharing it with our contemporaries as well as with future generations.