Call it another promise made, promise kept by the Ford government. Although it’s sad the promise ever had to be made.
I’m talking about the pledge to have every university and college across the province adopt a free speech policy by Jan. 1, 2019.
“Colleges and universities should be places where students exchange different ideas and opinions in open and respectful debate,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in August when he gave the schools the deadline.
Jim Turk, a professor at Ryerson University who heads up the school's Centre for Free Expression, hates the policy, calling it an “unprecedented abuse of university autonomy” and says Ford manufactured a crisis in claiming free speech is threatened on campus.
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