Liberal doctrines rule on universities

RE: STEVENSON STRIPPED OF EMERITUS STATUS, AUG. 15

Dr. Garth Stevenson was attacked and his democratic right of free speech was taken away because of a liberal-favoured special interest group. No doubt Stevenson could have expressed himself in a more polite manner.

It is this liberal ideological doctrine that rules on every university. Universities are the worst public places where free speech is censored and students are denied to think objectively for themselves. Students and professors with different views than the Liberal are not tolerated as we see this time and again.

The sad issue for students is that this university experience is supposed shape them into independent thinking young adults concerning social and political issues, but are instead expected to follow this progressive line of thinking.

Opposition is sequenced by shaming or harassment. The treatment of Wilfrid Laurier University student Lindsay Shepherd by university staff is a clear example of this harassment when she used University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson as a talking point in a freedom of speech debate.

The removal of the statue of John A. Macdonald, a significant historical figure, who has shaped Canada the way it is with its good and bad things of that period, is troubling. To erase history is a bad thing. We need to learn from the bad things that happened during that period. To dismiss the will of the majority of Canadians is dictatorship and something we did not vote for.

Rob Janssen

Lincoln