CANADA
Times Colonist
THE CANADIAN PRESS
JANUARY 11, 2017
VANCOUVER – The only indigenous professor on a committee working on a new sexual assault policy at the University of British Columbia has resigned from the group after the school brought back John Furlong to speak at an upcoming fundraiser.
Daniel Heath Justice said in a letter to university president Santa Ono that the decision “silenced and erased” allegations that Furlong physically abused First Nations students while teaching at a Catholic school in Burns Lake, B.C., in 1969 and 1970.
Justice, chair of First Nations and indigenous studies, said he could not continue to serve on the committee because Ono’s reversal has undermined the credibility of the process.
“I believe that a viable and legitimate survivor-centred approach to sexual assault cannot stand with integrity alongside this deeply troubling decision,” Justice said in the letter posted on Twitter.
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