Scheer’s free-speech promise: smart politics, not smart policy

Smart policy would consider options for bringing back debate on campus and other places. But Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is just tackling a part of the problem that concerns his base.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer tells party members after winning the leadership race on May 27 that he would stop giving federal funds to universities that fail to protect freedom of speech on campus.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY JIDé AFOLABI

June 21, 2017

OTTAWA—On the question of free speech new Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer wasted no time in signalling what Canadians can expect if they choose him to occupy 24 Sussex. Speaking to Conservatives the night he won the leadership last month, he repeated his campaign promise to stop giving fe...

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