University backs professor who says Asian immigration damages Vancouver – The Globe and Mail

More on Professor Duchesne (see his UNB website here) for his overall philosophy on immigration and multiculturalism and the “uniqueness of Western Civilization.”

Not that one cannot have concerns about the pace and nature of change but his phraseology and ideology suggest a less than dispassionate view:

He said Prof. Duchesne is using academic freedom to hide poor scholarship. “He’s only providing one view to students and shaping their minds,” he said. “That whole academic enterprise of why we send our kids to school to become broad thinkers is not being upheld.”

Mr. Jang also said Prof. Duchesne’s views on Asian immigration to B.C. are simply untrue. “It really comes across as very white supremacist. That’s just not Canada. It’s a country of immigrants.”

But Prof. Duchesne, on Wednesday, disputed Mr. Jang’s views, noting that the university’s dean of arts came to see him earlier in the day and upheld his academic-freedom rights.

This week, Prof. Duchesne was quoted by CBC as saying the influx of Asians and Chinese to Vancouver was “too fast, too quick,” leading a “beautiful British city” to take on “a strongly Asian character.”

In an interview from Saint John, he stuck by that view Wednesday, describing Vancouver as a city dramatically altered by Chinese immigrants. “Vancouver can still be seen as a city that still remains British in many areas, but also has this strong, growing Asian side. There is this two-faced character to the city,” he said. “The fast pace of the change is bad.”

University backs professor who says Asian immigration damages Vancouver – The Globe and Mail.