City Under Siege: The University of Toronto Joins the G20 Security Ring http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/361.php

So how should we understand the University's decision to shut its doors for a week of June – to expel its students and staff and barricade itself off from the outside world? Sadly, this is typical of an institution where the support of peaceful protest and free speech are nothing more than well-worn clichés. The University of Toronto has always been a bastion of Canada's ruling class. It is one of Canada's most conservative universities: an institution that has schooled many of the country's elite, that has long stifled dissent, that has played a primary role in defending neoliberalism.