Where is the concept of democracy and human rights in this directive to our universities and colleges?  How about the wisdom of the content of one's character/skill set prioritized over the colour of one's skin, sex, ethnicity, and religion?  What about the court expense of the imminent challenge to this extremism under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

This is nothing more than a rebirth of taking the hideous policy of stalinist socialist realism and expanding it to higher science and thought, a singular politics imposed  to  prevail upon all. This set back the regimes that imposed this by two generations as it was not evidence based.

There is also change afoot in the in foreign aid which has changed course to focus support for women and girls, as opposed to the appalling conditions both sexes find themselves in many regions of the world.

This is a threat to our democracy, and it is all about trying to lock up the vote and secure long term governance.