



As the United States officially abandons the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda as the institutionalized bigotry that most of it is, and Harvard University has banned reasonably defined antisemitism and is incorporating the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, Canadian academia appears to be resolutely accelerating in the opposite direction. In recent months, activists from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the United Steelworkers (USW) university locals, promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions policies against Israel, have been pressuring faculty associations at the University of Toronto and other Ontario universities, demanding ”responsible investing” by the University Pension Plan (UPP), which holds $11.7 billion in assets for the 41,000 working and retired members of the plan.