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Before the Lindsay Shepherd affair in 2017, the general public was largely unconscious of the extreme campus bullying that can result when campus community members dissent from contemporary ideological orthodoxy, writes Barbara Kay. AlbertArt/Shutterstock
The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute used to run a lively series called The Great Canadian Debate. In 2014 I took the affirmative side in one such, whose resolution was “Free speech in Canadian universities is an endangered species.” My opponent was a staunchly leftist York University professor.
Barbara Kay is a columnist and author. Her latest writing project is co-authorship with Linda Blade of the book “Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.”
