Discrimination against whites

Re: Doctor’s Racist, Sexist Will rejected, Feb. 22.

There is a double standard at play in the Ontario Superior Court judge’s quashing of Dr. Victor Priebe’s final wishes to create a scholarship for a very specific demographic of the population. There are scholarships in Ontario that do that very same thing, albeit for the benefit of a different demographic.

The Bill 7 Award is a scholarship in Ontario awarded only to people of the LBGTQ community. The Black Canadian Scholarship fund is available only to people of colour. Priebe’s proposed scholarship would only be available to people of the WSMFH (white, single, male or female, heterosexual) community.

I am sympathetic to the discrimination and hardships blacks and LGBTQ members have faced and continue to face. However, past discrimination does not give the state carte blanche to commit discrimination against whites. Provincial and federal judges should stop playing the political correctness game. Is it such a stretch to imagine there are certain members of the WSMFH community that would be just as in need of a helping hand as people from any other segment of the population?

A will written by Dr. Victor Priebe that set up a scholar- ship open only to white, single, heterosexuals has been struck down by an Ontario judge who invoked a 1938 Supreme Court of Canada decision that allows a court to over- rule the provisions of a bequest if “they clearly offend the interests of the state.”

It’s perplexing that Trinity Western University, a Christian institution, is free to refuse entry to or expel, a practising gay student while Dr. Priebe’s stipulation to restrict his scholarships to unmarried, white, heterosexuals is null and void since it clashes with “public policy.” Does Justice Alissa Mitchell’s recent ruling mean that any bequest to Trinity Western University is suspect as it offends the public interest?