MONTREAL - The Quebec government has announced new legislation and a $1-million-a-year ad campaign geared at cracking down on bullying in schools.
Charest says his government will introduce a bill in the legislature this week that will give authorities new measures to deal with the problem.
The province also launched a three-year TV and Internet awareness campaign to get the word out to students about bullying.
The announcement comes following the suicide last fall of a 15-year-old Quebec girl who was bullied by classmates.
Marjorie Raymond told her mother in a suicide note last November that she couldn't endure the physical and psychological abuse any longer.
Her mother Chantal Larose had called for tougher laws to discourage bullying.
© The Canadian Press, 2012