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The only free speech stalwart on Wilfrid Laurier University’s free expression task force has temporarily resigned.

Liberal arts associate professor David Haskell stepped aside Thursday after learning that the university is demanding $5,473 for unspecified “security costs” for a Lindsay Shepherd-organized free-speech event.

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She of course is the teaching assistant who was subjected to a disgraceful browbeating last fall by two of her professors and a bureaucrat for daring to show an excerpt of Jordan Peterson debating gender identity.

The three labelled her “transphobic” because she didn’t first denounce Peterson’s views before showing the clip.

In the wake of that experience, Shepherd formed The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry (LSOI), with the goal of bringing controversial speakers and events to campus.

With at least one event thwarted by the pulling of a fire alarm and another put on hold because of exorbitant security cost demands from another university, LSOI is now planning to bring Dr. Frances Widdowson, associate professor of political science at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, next week.