U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools.
But so far, the Conservative leader has been sparse on details of exactly what kind of action he might take.
Trump’s demands, which have sparked condemnation about interference in academic freedom, made headlines this week after the White House said it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion US in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University.
Trump is simply refusing to fund whacko academics propagating whacko ideas.
That’s not a threat to academic integrity it’s common sense.
The whackos remain free to be whackos just not on the public dime but of course Carney’s CBC paints this as a conservative attack on academic freedom.
