Minister’s chief of staff to professors: “Shut up!”
By Dale Kirby | March 2nd, 2009 | 6:18 pm
Details coming out regarding a recent meeting between representatives of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and the federal minister responsible for science and technology, Gary Goodyear, paint a picture of a sort of one-sided screaming match. Some details of the raucous meeting have been noted by The Globe and Mail:
The screaming erupted last Wednesday afternoon, just down the street from Parliament Hill, in the offices of a Conservative cabinet minister.
The CAUT’s follow-up letter to the minister below is not quite flattering for the minister or his staff:
[...] perhaps you were getting on track with this whole science thing, especially after your previous missteps. Perhaps I jumped the gun on [...]