John Carpay: It’s Time to Defund Universities That Censor Speech on Campus

Since the 1990s, the cancer of censorship has been tolerated and coddled by university officials across Canada.

John Carpay

1/18/2026|Updated: 1/18/2026

Commentary

It’s high time for Canadians to start demanding that provincial governments stop giving billions of tax dollars to public universities which demonstrate by their actions that they have no love for inquiry, debate, and truth.

John Carpay

Author

Lawyer John Carpay is president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (jccf.ca).

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