This is a fascinating story in the National Post, written by Kevin Libin. It details a move within an American association of professors to move their annual convention to a city other than Toronto, for the sole reason that Canada’s human rights commissions are incompatible with the freedom of expression necessary for academic discussions.

…In a statement issued on Thursday, the working group behind the protest said: “The nature of radical Islamism and the relationship of public morality and homosexual conduct are issues of vital public importance” and that “all political scientists have a professional interest in a full and open scholarly debate” on these topics. The group called it “unseemly” for APSA to “turn a blind eye to [Canadian] attacks on freedom of speech” and “unacceptable Â… to risk exposing its own members to them.”

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A member of the Hoover Institution? Why that’s a hate crime isn’t it?

In today’s Globe & Mail Clifford Orwin, U of T Prof, offers his take on the efforts of members of the American Political Science Association to condemn Toronto as the host city for their upcoming conference due the abuse of Free Speech rights by the Turtle Bay loving Marxist sycophants running our Human Rights Commissions.