YOU SAID IT: Where did you go to school?

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Re: Med schools shouldn’t lower standards for diversity, Brian Lilley column, online, Nov. 1

The column was excellent but saddening because even our “woke” universities (like Toronto Metropolitan University) are now lowering their standards to promote so-called “diversity.” What a cop-out!

The word should actually be spelled “discrimination.” If I ever need any kind of surgery in the future, I will absolutely ask about the background education of the person who would wield the knife before allowing them to so much as even touch me.

ROGER LEWISMN
BRAMPTON, ONT.

WANT THE BEST

Re: Med schools shouldn’t lower standards for diversity, Brian Lilley column, online, Nov. 1

As a Muslim, I’m deeply offended by Toronto Metropolitan University’s decision to lower the grade expectations because of DEI. My family has always taught us that, if you can’t do something, try harder and not to assume you get something just because of the colour of your skin or your ethnicity.

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Seven years from now, are we going to be blaming patients for asking DEI people what institute they graduated from? Will that be seen as racist or will it be seen as what it is — fear that someone unqualified is practising medicine? Or, even if they’re just barely qualified, they’re not as good as some of the people who were rejected.

I want the best physicians for my family based on merit and qualifications, not on a quota system for DEI.

FAROUK MOHAMMED
AJAX, ONT.

ANY LIMIT TO THEIR INCOMPETENCE?

Re: GUNTER: Liberals’ attack on oil and gas industries will cost jobs nationwide, column, online, Nov. 5

Is there any limit to the incompetence of the federal Liberals? Do they have secret meetings where they devise ways of lowering Canada’s GDP?

It’s enough to make one think that the Liberals know they have no chance of being re-elected, so they’re trying to burn the house down before they leave.

MIKE SHURTLIFF
KANATA

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