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Wade MacLauchlan, UPEI President – disability bigot

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H. Wade MacLaughlan, President of UPEI and disability bigot

H. Wade MacLaughlan, President of UPEI and disability bigot

H. Wade MacLauchlan heads PEI’s largest post secondary educational institution. He has proclaimed himself a champion of disability rights and access. Hoewever, he has removed the last three accessible parking spaces on the inner campus. MacLaughlan denies this of course. He refuses to meet to discuss it. His management refuse to meet. The UPEI Board of Governors are under MacLaughlan’s spell and will not discuss the facts in the matter.

We’ve written letters to the Guardian and other papers.
CTV news covered the story

H. Wade MacLaughlan is a disability bigot who uses his power and prestige in the community to deny human rights that are part of common practice and law.

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Written by Stephen Pate

February 18, 2009 at 11:54 AM

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  1. You know, Stephen, I get that you see yourself as a Champion of the Underdog. I get that you are passionate about your efforts, and sometimes feel frustrated when people don’t see things as you do. And I respect your commitment and dogged determination to expose what you believe is “right”.

    But I think sometimes you are careless with language.

    First, to lay the decision about parking spots on Wade MacLaughlan’s desk seems a bit of a stretch. If UPEI functions like any other bureaucracy – as it almost certainly does – the decision would have come from a committee of what he considered to be qualified people, and to ignore or fail to act on that decision would have been the wrong thing to do.

    I know Wade MacLaughlan to be a good and decent person, and deeply concerned with fairness and particularly with the rights of people facing any kind of challenges. To suggest that he is not – based only on the fact that he is not inclined to take specific actions which you have called for – takes a special kind of arrogance.

    “Bigot” is a deliberately inflammatory word, very carelessly used here. My dictionary defines a “bigot” as “a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.”

    With respect, it is not Wade MacLaughlan who is being intolerant and dismissive of others’ views here. When you point a finger, you want to remember that leaves three others pointing back at you.

    Nils

    February 18, 2009 at 2:35 PM

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