The Netherlands’ Leiden University is one of the top-ranked in the world, so when one of its senior law professors takes the trouble to offer an international perspective to a science committee of the Canadian House of Commons, we should pay attention to his words.

Professor Yuan Yi Zhu’s advice to Canadian students who are not left wing is to keep their views to themselves until they secure funding: “[w]ithin Canadian academia there is a monoculture where, if you deviate even very slightly from what is fashionable and what is commonly accepted by your peers, not only will you be ostracized, but often you will not be able to have an academic career in the first place.”