In the wake of all that, she formed a free-speech group called The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry. Originally, the idea was that Goldy would debate a professor about her anti-immigration views, but every one Shepherd invited refused. The point of her group, Shepherd said Thursday, is to hold events on campus, so they decided to look 10 minutes down the road to the University of Waterloo. It means the Laurier draft statement on free expression (only in name does it resemble the so-called “Statement on Principles of Free Expression” from the University of Chicago) is a perfect illustration of that university’s will to give air to all views. The Laurier statement says the university “unequivocally embraces its institutional responsibility to ensure the free and open exchange of ideas in the spirit of intellectual and critical enquiry,” but then qualifies it to death.

Source: National Post April 26, 2018 22:52 UTC