For folks who somehow disagree with my reasonable criticism, look, how much money should a rich man, say named Mister McGillicuddy, have to give/pay to have the University of British Columbia renamed to McGillicuddy University?

Would 400 million dollars be enough?

How about two billion dollars? Would that be sufficient?

Look, the operating budget of UBC is about two billion dollars a year, most of it from taxpayer money. So sorry, but when you are looking at an enterprise that consumes about 40 billion dollars of taxpayer money every couple of decades to run, then no, even a donation of ten billion should not be enough to re-name UBC after some rich man.

I am all for donating money to charity, but when I do so, I do not expect to receive a hundred-to-one leverage from taxpayers in the direction of making my name famous.

The criticism is perfectly reasonable. And by the way, plenty of rich donors donate millions to medical causes without the receipt of an institution in their name.