After a series of mishaps in CEGEPs and universities, here is that Cégep Garneau has decided to play in turn in the film of the culture of cancellation this week, by erasing the columnist and former minister Joseph Facal of its “Wall of great graduates”.
The principal concerned made his investigation to learn that it was a teacher who asked the management to remove his photo.
This one would have been struck by the comments of the columnist. The members of the management to whom he spoke were “sensitive to the uneasiness expressed”, explained the spokesperson Hélène Aubin, and decided to acquiesce to his request.
Lack of judgment
Shortly after the call from our reporter, who took before/after photos, the photo had been replaced. We won’t tell a joke here: the element that prompted the Cégep to put the photo back on the wall was the call from the journalist from the Log, and nothing else. You would have to be naive to believe anything else.
The spokesperson spoke of a hasty decision, but without bad faith, advocating the importance of the values of freedom of expression and diversity of opinions in CEGEP.
Rather, we should speak of a significant lack of judgment on the part of members of the management of an educational institution who, as a result, failed in their duty.
New era of censorship
In an interview with Stéphan Bureau in Le Monde à l’envers, recently, former Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard was worried about this censorship that he believed to be over, he who lived through the era of religious censorship.
Mr. Bouchard believes that there is danger when media organizations prevent certain words from being spoken, or when schools erase the names of great politicians, such as that of Abraham Lincoln in certain American schools.
“We must frequent history,” he pleaded, stressing that we must also draw inspiration from it, without however going back to the path taken.
Mr. Bouchard sees a lot of ignorance in it and sees in it a temporary movement. We have to get out.