Report on the Unfair Dismissal of Professor David Irwin at Lakehead University (1976)

Booth sent a into the procedural and substantive circumstances memorandum in the following form to all members of surrounding the decision of Lakehead University to the faculty of the School of Forestry. [...] Neither to the view that the fear of litigation was over- were the vast majority of the members of the faculty dramatized by members of the faculty of the School of of the school. [...] Subsequent to the Irwin case, faculty appointments followed in this case? the only change effected in the procedures in place in the School of Forestry appears to be that space has been A reading of the above facts and of the CAUT allocated on the secret ballots for the making of guidelines leaves one in little doubt on this first anonymous comments. [...] careful parsing of the pertinent passages yields little insight into the intentions of the original draftsman or For the reasons we have indicated, we are not of those who initially approved the document with enamoured of the task of choosing between the overly respect to questions of the kind raised here. [...] of the thinking of at least some members of the faculty We do not wish to be taken as being critical of the in the course of the hearings held by this committee at performance of faculty members of the school.