In their search for funding, our universities seem to have become willfully blind to the issue of women's rights (or lack thereof) that lies at the heart of their gushing acceptance of Saudi petrodollars (Guess Who's Coming To Canada - March 6). Are we so desperate for cash that we applaud what we should condemn - the Saudi government's mandate that women must have a male chaperone to attend school? This is shameful by Canadian standards. Our universities, funded by our tax dollars, are implicitly serving to oppress women by supporting Saudi Arabia's gender apartheid.
President and CEO, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies