Human Rights at UPEI

UPEI Wade MacLauchlan, a challenge to debate disability access

Universities are supposed to be places of higher learning. At UPEI, the management seems to be bastion of right wing bigotry and minority discrimination. I know there are decent people out at UPEI but they are not in control.

So Wade, I challenge you to a public debate on the accessible parking issue at UPEI. To show you what a fair guy I am, I promise not to call you a liar, fascist or bigot at any time during the debate, plus or minus 24 hours.

The Question

Should UPEI provide accessible parking for people with disabilities or not? Should it be 150 meters from the building doors or less than 50 meters?

It’s always good to have a quantifiable question; otherwise the audience can’t determine the truth. The actual questions can be negotiated by teams of question negotiators.

Background

Prime facia, UPEI Board of Governors under the spell of the mesmerizer Wade MacLauchlan has been ignoring its responsibility to uphold the law, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the heritage of Christian charity from St. Dunstan’s by providing accessible parking as close as possible to the buildings. 

Rack my brain as I may, there is nothing that justifies taking away accessible parking for people with disabilities except bigotry and discrimination against the disabled. Who would admit to that today?

So here we are almost 6 months from the decision and act that removed the last accessible parking on campus.

What is the Board of Governors doing except stonewalling, a human rights disgrace for all to see. Note to Board – people all over North America have read this blog and wonder what your problem is. Me too.

Is the Board making steps to right the wrong?

Not a chance, they are complaining to the Guardian to stop printing our Letters to the Editor and places like Facebook to have the UPEI parking group removed. All in one week, done at night under the stealth of darkness.

Ohhhh scary scary. That should put and end to free speech.

Get out the brown shirts, burn the books, break the store windows it’s Kristallnacht on PEI.

All right Mr. Big Shot, I challenge you to a public debate over accessible parking at UPEI, at the Duffy amphitheatre.

Your dad Harry MacLauchlan wouldn’t need a debate to solve this issue. He’d be bold enough to talk it out, man to man. He was no coward.

I’ll give you the home ice advantage. You can line up all your best Vice Presidents and professors. It’ll be just you and me under regular debating rules, you get all the bench strength and seconds.

Wade it’s time for a showdown. You know you’re besmirching the name of UPEI throughout the world for no reason. I’d say that is dereliction of duty.

Think you can hold your own with me for 45 minutes in the ring. You’ve got 2 degrees and millions of dollars, staff everything.

I’m just a little guy in a wheelchair with Grade XI and a year at Dalhousie. You could probably debate me to a draw in 30 seconds, on the ropes in 60 seconds, down for the count in 2 minutes.

C’mon or are you afraid of the truth?