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SASKATOON — A University of Saskatchewan dean who says faculty are being told to keep quiet about cuts has been fired, stripped of tenure and escorted off campus by police.

The Opposition New Democrats say Robert Buckingham, executive director at the School of Public Health, has told them that he was called into a meeting Wednesday morning and banned for life from campus.

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“In publicly challenging the direction given to you by both the president of the university and the provost, you have demonstrated egregious conduct and insubordination and have destroyed your relationship with the senior leadership team of the university,” reads a termination letter addressed to Buckingham and signed by provost Brett Fairbairn.

The letter was released by the NDP.

“You have damaged the reputation of the university, the president and the school and have damaged the university’s relationship with key stakeholders and partners, including the public, government and your university colleagues.”