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Messed up situation but the students quoted are being unreasonable. I understand that people are worried about their safety but to expect a university to disclose someone's criminal background to other students is completely insane. Do we believe in rehabilitation or not? And these are law students!

The racial aspect of this is buried at the bottom of the article. Ewert is Métis and won a Supreme Court case in 2018 about racist risk assessments that failed to take into account his Indigenous status. How much do you want to bet the anonymous women who ran to the press with this story are white?

The headline referring to him only as a "convicted killer" is also deeply dehumanizing. He is also (or was?) the president of the Canadian Prisoners’ Labour Confederation and has been "advocating for the rights of prisoners to unionize and receive fair wages."

This Indigenous man spent 4 decades in prison, is out on parole, is advocating for prisoners and former inmates labour rights, and is attending law school. And McGill - with its white supremacist colonial history - is going to throw him under the bus to make white students feel safer?