A Comparison of a University's Official Free Speech Policy with Reality

It ain't pretty. Or that interesting.

Response to the University of Guelph's Free Speech Policy. 

Note: It looks like they haven’t read it, or maybe there is some special exception to free speech that wasn’t stated but implied. Maybe I fell on top of it. https://www.uoguelph.ca/freedom-of-expression/policy

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This document contrasts how the University of Guelph’s official statement on free speech that is publically available contrasts with the University of Guelph’s (the senior parent and fully responsible for all decisions of the University of Guelph-Humber) actual practice. This practice has involved running roughshod over my freedom of speech; indeed, in nine months of suspension, all my questions about my freedom of speech have not been responded to, not a single one, even the writers of this “Free Speech document” refuse to respond when they are told that they do not practice what they preach.  

The hypocrisy is rich, but I see no evidence that a single administrator or person working in the human rights department has even read or considered their university’s official statement on freedom of speech.  It’s astonishing. 

This is typical of university and government culture, which has no structure to force administrators to adhere to their policies and procedures, not to mention free speech codes.  This university does what it feels and ignores its speech codes and human rights policies. I have seen no evidence that anyone in the administration or the human rights department has read their policies or free speech codes; if so, they are not understood or are illegally being contradicted.  

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