"If our productivity keeps going backward, while U.S. productivity keeps going forward, the gap between Canadian and American standards of living will widen into an abyss. As Canadian historian Michael Bliss has pointed out, our future as a country depends on the promise that an independent Canada can give our people a standard of living roughly comparable to that enjoyed to the south."
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Update. Good advice from #MichaelIgnatieff, past President of the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna (2016-2021): "How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime. Viktor #Orbán came for me. Donald #Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-a-university-fights-an-authoritarian-regime
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"You’re going to need an alliance that pulls together American families, employers, unions, companies, the whole network of people and institutions beyond your campus who understand that the universities of America are critical to everything that is good about the country: its commitment to freedom, its devotion to excellence, its leadership in science and medicine. This alliance is going to have to get political — to reach across red state and blue state, identify the members of Congress from both sides of the House who understand why universities matter to their communities, to the American economy, and to America’s deserved reputation for excellence. Don’t mince words. It’s too late to play nice. Call a spade a spade. Convince enough Americans that the administration’s strategy deserves only one name: vandalism."
#Academia #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦
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