"Is political correctness killing our university campuses?

"Last week two leading Canadian scholars told a gathering of academics in Vancouver that steering clear of confrontation and trying to find consensus isn't challenging important issues. (...)

"'I think in Canada we are a bit too polite,' observed Prof. Toope, a Harvard graduate who studied law at McGill before going to Cambridge for graduate studies. 'We are a little afraid of controversy.'"

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