Teacher's Association Calls on Ottawa University Provost to Be Censured

[sorrywrongemail]

...and I call on Teacher's Association to be censured for indirectly promoting hatred and bigotry and they should apologize to all Canadians affected by Coulter's bile. I refuse to link to the National Post's glowing column on this BTW, to stop feeding their ad clicks.

Canada’s main university teachers’ organization said that University of Ottawa provost Francois Houle should apologize to American pundit Ann Coulter.

In a letter sent this week to Houle, officials of the Canadian Association of University Teachers said, “We feel you owe an apology to Ms. Coulter and, even more importantly, you owe the University of Ottawa community an assurance that the administration of the university strongly supports freedom of expression, academic freedom and views the role of the university as fostering and defending these values.”

Read more: Teachers' association says Coulter needs apology | The Daily Inquirer http://www.thedailyinquirer.net/teachers-association-says-coulter-needs-apology/0311496#ixzz0jJfg6h7l
Via: The Daily Inquirer


http://www.thedailyinquirer.net/teachers-association-says-coulter-needs-apology/0311496

[daleo]

1. I will wait for a more reliable source

This seems hard to believe. There may be some very selective quoting from the letter, especially given that the National Post is reporting this.

[Grimm]

2. From CAUT itself

http://www.caut.ca/pages.asp?page=878

[daleo]

4. Good sourcing - they also stood up for George Galloway

So they are being scrupulously even handed, something Ann Coulter is not noted for.

Nonetheless, I wonder if thus reflects the opinion of the membership. There will probably be a lively debate within the organization over this call for an apology.

Here's a letter from them condemning the banning of anti-Iraq war British MP George Galloway. It's not to late for the government to apologize for that.

Dear Prime Minister,
We are writing on behalf of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, representing more
than 65,000 academic and general staff at 121 universities and colleges across Canada, to express
our profound disappointment in your government’s short-sighted, dangerous and, frankly,
embarrassing decision to ban long-serving British MP George Galloway from entering Canada
and attending speaking engagements in Toronto and Ottawa.
...
http://www.caut.ca/uploads/CAUT_Harper_re_Galloway.pdf

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For the record, I am inclined to think Ms. Coulter does more harm than good to conservatism.

[Spazito]

3. No apology needed and, I hope, no apology given...

Informing a foreigner of our laws needs NO apology. This 'tour' by the hate-filled Coulter was deliberately done to challenge our hate crime laws, imo, and I can't wait until that POS tries to challenge them based on Canadians exercising THEIR right of free speech and THEIR right to protest.

Let the university teachers' association challenge the law as well if they feel so strongly about allowing hate speech on campus.