Collge de Maisonneuve receives $400K to 'support living together'

The Quebec government will give$400,000 toCollgedeMaisonneuveas part of a pilot project aimed at easingtensionson campus grounds at theCEGEP, whichmade headlines after some of its students left to join militants in Syria.

Hlne David, the province's higher education minister, made the announcement Sunday morning alongside Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre.

• Montrealanti-radicalizationcentre gets $500Kbudget increase

The funding comes after theCEGEP'sadministrationmet with the provincial government last month.

In a press release, the Quebec government said the pilot project would implement "measures to support living together".

The subsidy will go in part to hiring additionalpersonnel to work at the school.

"It will be workers who are really involved in the community and not behind their desks," David said.

Coderre said addingstaff is key in recognizing and preventing radicalization but also to promote openness.

"We are creating the proper environment so people will feel better," Coderre said.

Last January, fivepost-secondary students from theCollge de Maisonneuve left the country by plane to go to the Middle East territory controlled by ISIS.