Letter to the Fulcrum
The University of Ottawa Student Newspaper

January 5th 2005

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Hi Rob (Mr. Fishbook),

I'm responding to your article "Discourse restricted" in 
the January 6-12 2005 edition of the Fulcrum.

My concern is that "political discourse" is *NOT* ALLOWED
**AT ALL** in the Agora: this "blatantly" contravenes Sec-
tion 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

As the President/Party Leader of the Égalité Party of Canada,
strongly believe college+university campuses are great 
places for political parties - such as mine - to get started.

Incidentally, I called the Head of the Political Science
Department at Ottawa U. to see if she would have the 
platform of my Party critiqued. 

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She *NOT* only refused to return my call, but Ottawa U.
put a "call block" on my phone number.

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Talk about *RESTRICTING* political discourse.


What are they "afraid" of?

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New,"fresh" ideas?

They obviously have a stake in believing in the "same-
old, same-old" FASCIST! POLICE STATE status quo.

I received the "same" NEGATIVE RESPONSE from
Carleton U. political science faculty as well as that of 
the Université de Québec (on the other side of the 
Ottawa River) alleging that by having my political 
party platform critiqued by their students they'd
be promoting my political party.

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What are they afraid of?
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BIG BROTHER?

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THE QUESTION is this: *WHY* is the University
"restricting" public discourse?

The Gov't must have made it clear to them that it will *NOT*
tolerate *ANY* NEW POLITICAL PARTY with fresh ideas
that will upset the apple cart. 

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That is such A DANGEROUS, TOTALITARIAN 
RESPONSE to the freedom of speech 
that it's CHILLINGLY OFFENSIVE.
 

OPEN, PUBLIC DISCOURSE IS VITAL TO DEMOCRACY+
FREEDOM: : without it, there can only be 
TYRANNY!

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The whole thing reminds me of when I was delivering 
my M.A. presentation on ESL curriculum design at 
Carleton University in November 1996 when my lin-
gistics professor, Dr. Janice Yalden, former Faculty of 
Arts Dean and former Head of the Department of Lin-
guistics at Carleton University, got up midway through 
my presentation+asked me to sit down because I was
disagreeing with the last 20 years of linguistic thought
regarding multilingualism when everything I was 
saying was substantiated by the latest avant-
guard linguistic research FROM *OUTSIDE* NORTH 
AMERICA and I, myself, had already studied nearly a 
dozen languages at University earning *TOP* MARKS 
making me an authority on the subject.

Needless to say, I walked out of the program IN *TOTAL* 
DISGUST.

Her response was an *UNCONTROLLED* FASCIST RE-
SPONSE that made me *SICK* because it was UNWAR-
RANTED+TOTALLY DIGRACEFUL in a public institution 
of HIGHER LEARNING that is supposed to encourage
(NOT discourage) FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

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The moral of the story is that universities CAN+
*DO* "restrict" discourse and they do
so "actively":IT'S *FASCIST* MIND
CONTROL.

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*PLUS* Ottawa U. campus Police warned 
me that they'd charge me with "trespas-
sing on *PRIVATE* PROPERTY if I came
on campus or promoted my political party 
on the streets around the campus.

The Ottawa Police confirmed that they would 
lay the charges as they have done so in the
past.

Note: when I asked the campus Police
Note: for *PROOF* that Ottawa U. in 
Note: fact was "private property" they 
Note: *couldN'T* produce any.

It turns out that, though all* universities+
colleges are PRIVATE PUBLICLY FUNDED 
INSTITUTIONS, NO ONE seems to know 
who owns them. 

That's *NOT* baffling?

TheÉ(eh)PC intends to solve this problem by
nationalizing colleges +universities.

See http://eh-ok.ca/egalite.htm#nationalization.

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TheÉ(eh)PC will ensure that DISCOURSE at 
Canada's institutions of higher learning is *NOT* 
RESTRICTED.

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Regards,