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The union representing professors at the University of Ottawa is asking for a judicial review of raises given to two senior university administrators, raises that the union says contravene Ontario’s public sector wage freeze.

The Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa says it’s making the application in Divisional Court after the university — and Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Reza Moridi — ignored its complaints about the raises.

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“We were so, you could say, ‘insulted’ at the lack of response from the board of governors, and even the minister, that one of the only ways left to get the information we want, and to figure out if this was legal or illegal, was to bring it to the courts,” association president Jennifer Dekker said Friday.

“We’ve read the law. We think it’s illegal.”

In October, the APUO wrote to Moridi urging a “transparent public investigation” into the raises given to vice-president of research Dr. Mona Nemer and to Dr. Jacques Bradwejn, dean of the School of Medicine, the person who approved Nemer’s raise.