Freedom Of Speech Aborted At McGill University

Barbara Kay weighs in on the McGill "student society's" decision to suspend the official club status of the university's pro-life club Choose Life. While Barbara doesn't believe that the club's decision to host the Echoes of the Holocaust presentation was right (and she strongly disagrees with linking abortion to the Holocaust,) she condemns the "student society's" decision to silence the club, rather than presenting their counter-arguments:

So there isn't a single student at McGill University who can possibly be more offended than I am by Holocaust-abortion linked imagery. Nevertheless, if Choose Life is foolish enough to pursue this self-destructive strain of argumentation, they have the right to do so. And other groups have the right to rebut it as I did. So it is disingenuous of SMUU to pretend that this is not a free speech issue. This is an issue of Political Correctness plain and simple.
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The suspension of Choose Life is a witchhunt and a very serious breach of McGill's supposed dedication to free speech for all comers. Ms Woolf claims that "we take complaints seriously" but also noted that the suspension was the result of exactly four student complaints to Equity. Four disgruntled individuals took down an advocacy club! Is this SSMU's idea of democracy?

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I bet, if these were four Christian students complaining about a controversial presentation by a homosexual club - their complaint would be dismissed outright. Ditto - if four Jewish students complained about the pro-"Palestinian" organization on campus, which does use false and one-sided information, as well as offensive comparisons.

So this is an issue of free speech vs political correctness, which is enforced by the so called "student society". And the only way to address it is to make student union membership voluntary, so that students could opt-out of the major union membership and use their membership dues as they please, including - forming their own, parallel unions.