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As much as I may be critical of the Free Expression policy the university is drafting, I also realise they don't have a lot of choice in the matter - this is a mandate from the provincial gov, consulting with bad faith parties who have a vested interest in this.

During the Q&A, a lot of speakers were not pleased with prohibiting disruptive protest, and they're not wrong.

But that part of the policy is actually one of the provincial standards they have to meet, set by the Ontario provincial gov before word one was drafted.

IMO? This is the Ford gov system working exactly as intended.

They get to set arbitrary requirements, like disallowing disruptive protest, without appearing to do so. Because each school has to draft their own policy, they take the heat for it instead of the Ontario gov.

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