‘Diversity and Exclusion’: Lindsay Shepherd Pens Book About Free Speech Controversy at Laurier University

Lindsay Shepherd is a fellow with True North Canada and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. She just released her book “Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis.” Courtesy of Lindsay Shepherd

Lindsay Shepherd’s story of finding herself hauled in front of a Wilfred Laurier University informal tribunal and accused of violating the university’s policy on gendered and sexual violence made national headlines in 2017.

The then-graduate student and teaching assistant secretly recorded the disciplinary meeting and released it to the media, and Laurier’s president apologized.