On Universities and the Charter with Glenn Blackett | S02E11

Glenn takes us through a case in which the University of British Columbia cancelled a speech by journalist and activist Andy Ngo. In 2019, UBC cancelled a scheduled, on-campus speech entitled, "Understanding ANTIFA Violence," after Ngo had been invited by the student group The Free Speech Club to deliver it. The lawsuit, now at the BC Supreme Court, grapples with this question: are post-secondary institutions subject to the Canadian Charter?