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Wilfrid Laurier University grad student Lindsay Shepherd was guilty before she was even tried.

We’re not referring to the disturbing kangaroo court process between Shepherd and her supervisor that she wisely caught on tape. Although that was obviously a sham from the get go.

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No, it looks like she’s going to be guilty in the eyes of the task force WLU has put together to navigate both Shepherd’s situation and the broader problem of free speech on campus.

That is if the university stays true to a very policy that they recently implemented. WLU has a Gendered and Sexual Violence Policy, introduced in the wake of Ontario’s Bill 132 passed last year that required universities to develop just such a policy.

The WLU policy though goes much further than the law compels, as Andrew M. Robinson, an associate professor of human rights and human diversity at Wilfrid Laurier University, explains in a recent column published in The Toronto Star.