You may work at a university and think none of this concerns you. No one is investigating you. No one is threatening your livelihood. No external investigator is shouting bizarre accusations about “planting evidence” while refusing to explain what evidence she means. You are doing your work, collecting your salary and assuming that, should anything truly unjust occur, the institution’s procedures will protect you.
I once thought the same thing.
That is the Canadian dilemma. Most of us rarely test our systems personally. We pass through life without discovering whether the promises made by universities, hospitals, tribunals, courts, government departments, unions and professional regulators are real. We see offices, policies, appeal forms and reassuring language about fairness. We assume that somewhere behind the signage there must be a functioning system of justice.
We mistake assertions for evidence.
Most people, thankfully, will never be suspended, accused through anonymous gossip, deni…
