The fight about academic freedom in Canada is whitewashed

François Legault's fight against 'wokeness' and social advocacy isn’t about academic freedom. It’s about a small group of white people refusing to change or hear about any other lived experience. We might as well call it Karen University.

Quebec Premier François Legault, pictured Sept. 18, 2020, in Ottawa after a premiers' meeting. Academia is not about the freedom to speak any dumb idea or thought that one might have. Academia was intended to play the role of 'critic and conscience of society' and that’s a serious responsibility, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

February 22, 2021

OTTAWA—Quebec Premier François Legault used social media on Facebook last week to share his belief that "a handful of radical activists who are trying to censor certain words and works” are the problem...

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