Academic freedom law proves pointless

In 2022, the CAQ passed a sort of anti‑woke academic freedom law, which one prof quoted here says was meant to manipulate public opinion, because there’s no crisis in academic freedom. Universities created the committees required by the law, but there has been very little call for them to sit or rule on any cases.

The quoted academic, Francis Dupuis-Déri, also has an opinion piece reviewing how the passage of the law came about after a University of Ottawa lecturer was suspended for using a term that was considered racist. Outrage over this “censorship” culminated in passing an entirely pointless law.

Some previous links to the story at the time.