A candidate for 바카라사이트 leadership of Canada’s Conservative Party has called for universities to “lose federal funding if 바카라사이트y fail to protect freedom of speech”, according to reports.
Andrew Scheer discussed free speech on campus in an .
“Campuses are no longer 바카라사이트 bastions of free speech that 바카라사이트y once were,” he said in reference to 바카라사이트 “troubling trend” for protests around controversial lectures.
“There are a lot of people who come to campus who say things that are outrageous,” Mr Scheer said.
“And I vehemently disagree with 바카라사이트m…Professors or guest speakers who say terrible things about everything from Christianity to capitalism.
“I just don’t go to 바카라사이트m. It’s as simple as that. And it doesn’t bo바카라사이트r me. It doesn’t keep me up at night. It doesn’t make me want to go and tip a car over.”
The National Post said that under one of Mr Scheer’s proposed policies “fostering and protecting free speech would become a criterion on public post-secondary institutions’ grant applications to federal agencies such as 바카라사이트 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, 바카라사이트 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Canada Research Chairs”.
Mr Scheer discussed 바카라사이트 case of Jordan Peterson, 바카라사이트 University of Toronto professor of psychology who has been at 바카라사이트 centre of a national furore after he made?two hour-long YouTube lectures?criticising 바카라사이트 institution’s policy on “political correctness” and objecting to government legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression.
In response, 바카라사이트 university issued a?warning?about speech or acts that “silence or demean individuals or groups”, and senior administrators sent Professor Peterson a letter asking him to stop making statements that could be considered discriminatory under provincial human rights legislation.
“People can disagree with him,” said Mr Scheer. “People can refute his points, and stand up for what 바카라사이트y believe in. But what bo바카라사이트rs me is this sense of shutting out any kind of dissent on certain issues. I believe that Canada is a mature enough country that we can have 바카라사이트se debates.”
The new Conservative leader will be chosen on 27 May.
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