Striving Against Opposition

The Letter Writing Profs are Giving, what about the Universities?

I've made a couple of posts on academia and politics. You can find them here, and here. Of course my last post was on the bais of those profs who attacked Stephen Harper's position on Same Sex marriage as unconstitutional. A number of them are overtly partisan, including several deans.

But what of the institutions themselves? Can we expect the Ivory tower to be above the nitty gritty and muck of partisan politics?

Apparantly not.

Fun facts to follow, the dear folks at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law who posted the anti-Harper letter on their website don't limit themselves to polemics and signatures.

In 1995 they donated $185.75 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

However, that's relatively small potatoes compared to the donation the good people at the University of Alberta have made to the Liberal party over the past number of years.

Since 1995 the University of Alberta has felt the urge to donate $6661.07 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

While the Acadia Faculty Association made a donation to the NDP in 2000 valued at $5055.92

Athabasca University in 2002 donated $637.24 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Brock University between 1996 and 1997 donated $1688.18 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Carleton University in 1994 donated $200 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Concordia University donated $677.31 to you guessed it the Liberal Party of Canada.

Dalhousie University simmilairly shared in the academic love in for mother government, donating $423.88 in 2002.

The Governors of Acadia University, evidently weren't content to let the Faculty alone venture into backing political parties between 2002 and 2003 they've donated $1794.54 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Laurentian University gave $157.32 to the NDP in 1997.

While the Laurentian University of Sudbury gave $1314.80 to the Liberal Party of Canada in 1998 and 1999.

McMaster University gave $599.94 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1993.

St.Mary's University has donated $5584.54 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 2001.

The University Of British Columbia has donated $2737.40 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1994.

The University of Calgary has given $3675.45 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1998.

While my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Manitoba has given $4043.62 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1994.

The University of Western Ontario has donated $3508.48 since 1998 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The University of Guelph has donated $782.72 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1999.

The University of Regina since 1997 has donated $1584.16 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The University of Saskatchewan has donated $3851.04 to the Liberal Party of Canada since 1998.

While the University of Waterloo has donated $616.08 since 2000 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The University of Windsor since 1999 has donated $1202.58 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Finally in 2002 Wilfried Laurier (who would have guessed they would donate to the Liberals?) gave $252.60 to the Liberal Party of Canada.

I've ommitted a few small colleges which also gave Liberal simply because I've never heard of them before and the sums weren't all that large.

In the interests of offering "fair and balanced coverage" I will point out that

The University of Saskatchewan gave $300 to the Canadian Alliance Party in 2003 (less than 10% of its donations to the Liberal Party of Canada).

Trinity Western University in 2000 gave $560 to the Canadian Alliance Party.

The University of Western Ontario gave $1304.30 to the Progressive Conservative Party in 2002.

While the Okanagan University College gave $220 to the Canadian Alliance party in 1999.

Total Donations to Conservative Parties in Canada by Universities - $2304.30

Which is a third of what the University of Alberta alone has seen fit to give to Mother Government.

posted by Chris @ 1/27/2005 03:22:00 p.m.