The other day, in his column, Joseph Facal wrote that the woke movement was showing signs of running out of steam.
Force 5, hurricane Woke would be on track to become a force 3 or 2 storm.
Especially in the business world, where more and more companies are abandoning the famous EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) programs.
But as Joseph says, there is one environment, only one, where the hurricane Woke still threatens logic, science and common sense: academia.
There, it continues to blow hard.
Thanks to the activism of teachers and the cowardice of administrators, who hide under their desks.
SHORTCUTS FOR “UNDER-REPRESENTED” GROUPS
Latest madness: the former Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) will favor applications from minority groups when opening its medicine department.
We plan to welcome 94 medical students.
Twenty-four of these students will be chosen based on their grades.
And seventy will be chosen based on their membership in minority groups “traditionally underrepresented in medical departments.”
Yep.
Are you black, “racialized”, indigenous or LGBTQ+? Are you disabled, do you suffer from “chronic health problems” or are you “neurodivergent”?
Are you an orphan or do you come from a family that receives social assistance?
Are you the son or daughter of immigrant parents?
Did you have a “non-traditional educational background” or do you “consider that you are part of a group that should benefit from an equity assistance program”?
You will be able to get ahead of the others.
I’m not making this up, it’s written in black and white on the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine’s “Admissions Pathways for Equity-Deserving Groups” page.
I remind you that we are talking here about a program intended to train future doctors.
Not a program intended to train sociologists or philosophers.
Hard sciences.
No soft science without math.
I’M ASHAMED!
As you know, on Wednesday, I will have my prostate removed at the CHUM.
I’m a little fearful, but not worried.
Because the urologist who follows me is Doctor Paul Perrotte.
And the urologist who will open my stomach and fiddle with my prostate is Doctor Hugues Widmer.
The best, according to many patients who have written to me.
In short, I am in good hands.
But there is a catch.
They are neither black, nor indigenous, nor LGBTQ+.
They are white and straight. And I think they’re both over 50.
Should I request to be treated by other, less “privileged” doctors?
After all, according to Toronto Metropolitan University, it’s not the expertise of the doctor treating you that’s important, no.
It’s the color of his skin or what he does in bed.
The rest, meh.
What will the woke people I meet say the next time I go to the Théâtre La Licorne if they learn that I was treated by straight white doctors?
Oh dear, I’m ashamed!
Unfortunately, it is too late to turn back.
The hands that remove my prostate will indeed be white. And these will be the hands of a former medical student who was chosen because he had good grades!
Because he was one of the best!
Why didn’t I come across a doctor who was accepted into college because he was from a minority group?
A non-binary indigenous person? A trans welfare officer? A “queer for Palestine”?
Damn I’m not lucky!
OLD PEOPLE GAGO
Do you know why this type of program is accepted in universities?
Because the rectors who run institutions of “high knowledge” are graying and they want to have the impression that they are still “in the game”.
It used to be that people who refused to grow old bought a yellow Mustang.
Or danced to the Village People to show that they were go-go.
Today, they speak woke.
That’s how it looks.
Protection of French: attaboy!
According to the Committee on the French Language of the City of Montreal, what is needed to protect French in the metropolis is to create an Office of the French Language and Francophonie.
But what a great idea! Another box in the organization chart! With other officials!
And one of the missions of this Office would be to “strengthen the presence of the City in major events in the French-speaking world”.
Yes! Travel! Expense accounts! Oyster dinners! Discussions with representatives from Gabon or Estonia!
I can already feel the wind turning! Not you?
Moving asylum seekers: so what?
This week at QUB, I asked Didier Leschi, director of the French Office of Immigration and Integration, to tell me what he thought of François Legault’s idea of ”forcibly moving » towards other provinces of the thousands of asylum seekers currently in Quebec.
“But it’s done almost everywhere in Europe,” he told me. In France, if you are an asylum seeker and you do not want to settle where the State asks you to settle, your asylum seeker allowance will be cut. This system allowed us to better distribute the reception load. At the beginning, migrant rights associations criticized this system, but we held firm, and today, it is much less contested.”
In short, where is the problem?
Pablo! Pablo! Pablo!
If we rely on the latest Léger poll, voters who were preparing to vote PQ would vote for the PLQ if Pablo Rodriguez, Justin Trudeau’s former lieutenant in Quebec, led the party.
Um… Refresh my memory: what did Mr. Rodriguez say to turn you from blue to red? What did he do?
Do you like her hair?