Overview
- Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says a planned open-area outreach at York University was refused, which he characterized as a free-speech issue.
- The York University Student Centre says the denial was not political, citing insufficient event details and policies that directed the format to a booked room, and it invited organizers to reapply.
- Genuis says similar table-based conversations proceeded on other campuses, and he asserts York was the only one to require a closed room.
- The York Federation of Students says it neither books nor cancels events and had no prior knowledge, while the university says it learned of the plan only from Genuis’s post and does not speak for the student centre.
- Genuis’s post drew heavy online attention, including calls from some Conservatives for legal or funding responses, and no rebooking or legal action has been confirmed.