Some students, faculty and groups at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., are speaking out against a planned talk Tuesday evening by Faith Goldy — a woman described as alt-right and a white supremacist sympathizer.
Goldy is giving a talk on keeping Canada’s borders closed to immigration as part of a speaker series being put on by a new campus group, Laurier Society for Open Inquiry.
Her talk is entitled, “Ethnocide: Multiculturalism and European Canadian Identity” and is part of the group’s new “Unpopular Opinion Speaker Series.”
The group’s co-founder and president is Lindsay Shepherd. She made headlines last fall after she was sanctioned by a professor for showing a video that included Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto psychology professor, who has argued against using gender-neutral pronouns in a class for which she was a teaching assistant.
Goldy’s talk was initially meant to be a debate on immigration, with Goldy arguing for the closed border side. But Shepherd said no one would agree to debate Goldy, with one person saying to do so would legitimize Goldy’s views.
Shepherd said she knows Goldy’s opinions are unpopular, but that people should listen and form their own opinions.