...she had to be a woman and a francophone to boot. I refer to the token, politically-appointed principal of McGill University Suzanne Fortier, who bowed to money and forced Andrew Potter to resign. How this mighty university has fallen. Potter wrote a criticism of Quebec in the wake of the disastrous response to a recent snowfall in Montreal, where cars were stranded for many hours and two people actually perished awaiting rescue.
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente and National Post scribbler Andrew Coyne have both written excellent and scathing reports about this debacle, so I won't go into a lot of detail, but basically Quebec politicians and McGill bagmen of all stripes frothed at their mouths over his criticism, so Fortier folded.
It's appalling that a university principal would refuse to stand behind a professor just because he expressed views a lot of people didn't like. Hey, when people are stranded and die because you can't get a plow out, somebody's ass should be fired. How about the Minister of Transport? But no, Couillard instead dumped the assistant deputy minister. What BS that is. Montreal is the snow capital of Canada, but could not get emergency vehicles and plows out to deal with the situation?
My next questions is, what is a francophone doing as principal of a distinguished and venerable English institution like McGill? Ludicrous. It would never stand were an Anglophone made principal of the University of Quebec, let me tell you, which is why I label her a token.
Canada is such a loser of a country in so many ways.
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