and the speaker himself and the ngo stated it's the university of british columbia should not have given in to the chief threats of the institution defended its this isn't saying the journalist event was a potential targets. the reason for the cancellation is the concern about safety and security of our campus community the appropriate response to violent extremists who threaten access to information in the academy is not to give in to their demands by canceling the event. protesters have been involved in it number of violent incidents out that very same college on previous occasions. was. i. was. right was right i was the director of the university's free speech club again told us open discussion is being stifled of institutions and he believes wider afield in canada. this isn't just happening with us it's happening all over the country it's a new trend where publicly funded institutions think that they can just deny the right to free speech when they are taking money from the government they're part of the public sphere the suppression of free speech is not only happening on the instit

during attention to north america work as universal of british columbia is facing a free speech scandal a lawsuit that's after the institutional to council on the fence or what it called safety and security reasons it was intended to give a platform to a controversial us journalist to talk. fascist groups like leftist extremism undine ago has become a target for some activists his legal team looking into the cancellation after contracts were signed between the university and its free speech club the director all of that group of described it as giving those threatening violence the illusion of. there's always been an option of hiring our own security working with police ensuring safety they wouldn't even allow us to have that option this time they said look security can't even handle the protesters they're getting more and more violent and that's not even an option also we're just going to outright cancel the school has told us look just don't bring anybody controversial and they will protest and you'll have no problems but actually what is happening is that they're emboldening these pr

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welcome back to the program the university of british columbia in canada is facing a free speech scandal and a lawsuit after the institution opted to cancel an event shed yule for the end of the month over what it called safety and security concerns was intended to give a platform to a controversial us journalist to talk about anti for groups i left to 16 was a go has become a target for some activists and the legal team are now looking into the cancellation after contracts was signed between the university and the free speech club now the director of the group has described it as giving those threatening violence the illusion of power. it's always been an option of hiring our own security working with police ensuring safety they wouldn't even allow us to have that option this time they said look security can't even handle the protesters they're getting more and more violent and that's not even an option also we're just going to help break cancel the school has told us look just don't bring anybody controversial and they will protest and you'll have no problems but actually what is happe

british columbia? >> british columbia. the first time i heard of british columbia, it was my first week of my freshman year at stanford university and i was in a dorm with freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, and the upper classmen had thrown an ice cream social for us freshmen and i saw this really handsome, tall warm-eyed curly haired guy across the room and he essentially came up and started talking to me and he says to me, where are you from? and i said i'm from washington d.c. and i says, so where are you from? and he says british columbia. and i'm thinking, you know, i know i had a good education, but where the hell is british columbia? i'm not saying this allowed. i'm thinking to myself. okay, deduction, colombia is in south america. [laughter] >> there's british giana, and i say to my now husband, is that in south america? and he looks at me like i'm the biggest idiot he's met at stanford. he says, no, dryly, it's in western canada. and i tell that story on myself. >> you do. >>, but the higher i rose in the diplomatiic ranks, the more mileage ian got out of that story. >>, but i wanted to end my questions on a sto