CART (0)This alarming report comes to us via friends in Canada where a men’s rights group has taken legal action against an academic feminist for her report on the performance of boys in Canadian schools. It has an alarming resonance with our very own “crisis in masculinity” debate. See the following report sent to me via email from a friend:
CANADIAN FATHERS GROUP SUES FEMINISTS FOR DEFAMATION
I would like to inform you about a defamation lawsuit that has been lodged by the group BC fathers ( http://www.fathers.bc.ca/sow.htm ) in the Supreme Court of BC against one of my colleagues, Pierrette Bouchard, at Laval University. This is a manifestation of the backlash against feminists in Canada.
Pierrette Bouchard, professor in the department of education and who holds the Chaire on women status (Chaire Claire Bonenfant sur la condition des femmes) http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/lef/chaire/index.html at Laval University, wrote last year a report for Status of Women Canada on «School Success by Gender, a catalyst for masculinist discourse» ( http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662882857/200303_0662882857_e.pdf ).
This report attracted at lot of attention in the Canadian media (especially in the National Post). The «masculinist» (as we call them in Quebec) groups said that it was defamation, etc. etc. Now Pierrette Bouchard and the 2 students who helped her are sued in defamation by the group «BC Fathers» in BC Supreme Court. The lawyer for the group «BC Fathers» is Douglas Christie http://www.douglaschristie.com/DHC/guiding.htm#How%20to%20Deal%20with%20Attacks