TMU doubles down on race-based admissions: Peter MacKinnon in the National Post – MLI

January 30, 2025

Ontario government should impose appropriate consequences upon the school, including withdrawal of funding.

Toronto Metropolitan University remains committed to medical school admissions through “equity pathways” (admissions streams for Black, Indigenous and other equity deserving groups) though it has developed a vocabulary that obscures their discriminatory impact: “excellence, inclusion and innovation;” students “from the community, for the community.” But according to TMU vice-president and dean of medicine, Teresa Chan, the university remains “committed to admitting a majority of students through equity pathways.”

It would at least be informative to hear an explicit acknowledgment that the policy discriminates against white applicants, but no, there is no mention of discrimination and its prohibition in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code; it is as if these provisions do not exist or matter, or do not apply to TMU.

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