Reject Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity in Academia - House of Commons Testimony (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_886)

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

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0:00.0	Any thanks for the invitation to participate in this important discussion?
0:04.0	Meritocracy is the sole operative ethos when judging research excellence.
0:09.0	Scientific quests have a singular goal to better understand the world and its wondrous mysteries.
0:15.0	Science is not an empathy party meant to elevate and celebrate so-called marginalized groups.
0:21.6	The use of diversity inclusion and equity when allocating research funds is an affront to individual dignity and to research excellence.
0:29.6	A 2025 report by the Aristotle Foundation found that 97.5% of academic job postings
0:38.3	at Canadian universities referenced diversity, inclusion, and equity.
0:43.3	I will discuss briefly three such examples
0:46.3	from my chapter in the War on Science.
0:48.3	First example, the University of Waterloo School of Computer Science
0:53.3	recently advertised for two open
0:55.1	NSIRC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs, and I quote their call, their call. Position 1 in all areas
1:02.4	of artificial intelligence, the call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify
1:08.4	as women, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary, or two-spirit.
1:13.6	Second position in all areas of computer science, the call is open only to qualified individuals
1:19.6	who self-identify as a member of a racialized minority.
1:23.6	Close quote.
1:24.6	Second example from the University of British Columbia for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Oral Cancer Research,
1:32.3	quote, the selection will be restricted to members of the following federally designated groups, people with disabilities, indigenous people, racialized people, women, and people from minoritized gender identity groups.
1:45.8	Close quote.
1:47.0	Third example, from my own University, Concordia University, researchers there obtained a new
1:52.9	frontiers in research grant to decolonize light.
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