Two Quebec academics say they are concerned about the censure and censorship of professors in the province who questioned government responses to the pandemic, including the vaccination of children.
In a June 22 Quebecor Media article, Patrick Provost, a full professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Laval University, questioned whether it was right to impose vaccine passports and mandates and “muzzle the professionals and academics who criticized the health measures.”
The next day, Quebecor removed the article from its platforms.
In mid-June, Laval suspended Provost for eight weeks without pay for saying in December 2021 that the risks of vaccinating children for COVID-19 outweighed the benefits. The university then gave an equally long suspension to a second professor, Nicolas Derome, in the faculty of science and engineering’s biology department, for his own public comments questioning the COVID-19 response….