Academic Freedom: Laval University Must Apologize and Right its Wrongs

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The sanctions against Professors Provost and Derome are extremely serious and represent an unprecedented setback to freedom of expression. This freedom has been the very foundation of universities since the Middle Ages, and with the continuation of these sanctions, Laval University, instead of being its guardian, has become its gravedigger.

Professors Provost and Derome will have served their suspensions to the end, a highly unacceptable situation that has given rise to numerous criticisms to which you have not even deigned to respond. We now ask you to make amends by publicly apologizing to them and to the university community.

Finally, we ask that you pay them the back-pay owed to them after eight weeks of unjustified suspension. And of course, we ask you to honor, not just on paper, the principle of academic freedom from now on....

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