Canadian “culture” at it most exemplary.
Taxpayer-funded academia in Canada isn’t just “liberal” these days, it’s a promoter of liberalism. They don’t just teach liberalism, they enforce it—they practically ban conservative thought. They don’t just “tolerate” liberalist causes along with all other causes, they celebrate and honor them—and them almost exclusively. On your taxpayer dime.
As I blogged a few days ago, to which not one single person commented—not one—few in Canada care that a small group made up of people who fit into the category of being vehement socialists, rabid feminists, iconic pro-abortionists, or a little of all three, are being honored by a taxpayer-funded university in June in an exercise in liberal elite creation and idolatry.
Nobody—or at least very few—see anything wrong with this picture.
Would they ever honor someone who crusaded against abortion? Someone who fought for fathers’ rights? Someone who was an exemplary capitalist? A tough law and order man? A Canadian military expansionist? A particularly effective and influential conservative leader? Is there some kind of “equality” plan in play here to ensure equality of whom they choose to publicly idolize? Why no, I don’t bet there is.
The University of Western Ontario is facing a firestorm of protest over its decision to award Henry Morgentaler an honorary degree.
Anti-abortion activists from across Canada will demonstrate at convocation ceremonies when the abortion doctor receives his honorary Doctor of Laws on June 16. They’ve also asked alumni to stop donating to the London, Ont., university in protest.
Last week, they appealed directly to the university’s administration to reconsider their decision to honour Morgentaler. It will be his first honorary degree.
“We’re so deeply disappointed that it’s not easy to describe our feelings,” said Phil Arnsby, president of the London-area Right to Life network. “We were in touch with the vice-president of the university and he said that despite the overwhelming public response, they wouldn’t change their mind.”
Ted Garrard, a spokesperson for the university, said yesterday its honorary degrees committee, which is made up of faculty, students, alumni and others, made the decision on who would receive the degrees, and that there was a great deal of support for Morgentaler.
“They are empowered by (the university senate) and their decision is final,” said Garrard, a university vice-president.
“We certainly respect the dissenting opinions, and we did expect a good deal of reaction. But there are many people who support awarding Dr. Morgentaler this degree.”
Honorary degrees will also be awarded to nine other people, including former Chatelaine editor and feminist Doris Anderson, activist Maude Barlow and Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president of Notre Dame University, a Roman Catholic institution.
To me, this is another case in which we test to see if Canada is indeed confirmed as a solidly fringe left-wing socialist nation of people quite content with its course. I predict the outcome will show that that is in fact the case: that no, Canadians don’t really care, and that it is perceived as really quite bothersome for them to have to act-up and do anything at all whatsoever to affect change; and that people like me are just annoying. It sounds like the beginning of the yet-to-be-written book called “How did Canada lose its way?”
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