Opinion: Political intervention undermines our universities

In the past two years, we have seen the government of Alberta, in effect, create unions out of the province’s post-secondary faculty associations (without votes of their members), and prescribe limits upon the compensation of post-secondary leaders.
Now, with Bill 19, the province will extend its already prescriptive approach to tuition even further. In themselves, these developments are troubling. As disturbing, is the fact that they have occurred in the absence of public debate and comme