At the very end, if there is only one left to denounce the ideological excesses of our universities, it will be me.
I spoke to you last week about the opening of two professorships at UQAM which will be immediately prohibited to non-disabled white men.
Not only is this a criterion of the federal program which subsidizes these positions, but it is also a policy assumed with enthusiasm by the current management of UQAM.
There is more.
How?
At the end of 2023, the UQAM professors’ union reached an agreement in principle with management for the renewal of the collective agreement. Teachers notably obtained significant salary increases.
The agreement also provides, we can read, for the establishment of a “parity mechanism aimed at promoting access to equality for discriminated groups. If access to equality for women was provided for, this was not the case for people from other discriminated groups.
All this is presented as a great step forward, a first in Canada, it is said, under the aegis of the new Holy Trinity: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI).
Helping discriminated groups sounds good, right? Who could be so base in soul as to object to it?
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But how exactly will we go about it?
Many teachers will retire in the coming years. A lot of hiring will be necessary.
Are we going to extend this practice of competitions that immediately exclude a category to all faculty, as Ottawa already imposes for specific positions?
At the time of the vote, the teachers received no details on this subject.
You only need to read the documents from the UQAM administration to see that this systematic discrimination made in the name of virtue is a real institutional project, a global policy driven from above, not a whim of a handful of teachers. , executives or students.
Ah, but it’s UQAM, you might say. Think again.
At the University of Montreal, the teachers’ union demanded that, in the new collective agreement, EDI issues and the problem of “decolonization” be integrated.
Archive photo, Ben Pelosse
However, this union speaks on behalf of all the 2,300 professors at the university. We’ll see the texts, but that gives you an idea.
All this is happening at UQAM and the University of Montreal.
At Concordia and McGill, we don’t even talk about it, it’s even worse. In this matter, English speakers are ahead of the parade.
The EDI steamroller has been at work there for even longer.
Demolition
And the virus is spreading, I told you.
At the University of Moncton, in New Brunswick, a competition has just been opened to fill the position of dean of the Faculty of Education.
The competition specifies: “The chosen person must demonstrate […] a good knowledge of issues related to equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization.”
The demolition of the interiors of our universities, one of the most valuable institutions of free and prosperous societies, continues.