Gad Saad

This past year, I've been a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at Ole Miss, a big title.

And starting next year, I'll be a distinguished visiting professor there.

What led to it?

Well, as in most things in life, it's multifaceted.

Number one, it has become increasingly

challenging to be a outspoken Jewish professor in Montreal, Canada.

So that definitely was not a good thing.

But even if that didn't exist, as I get older, I've grown incredibly less tolerant of the

bad weather.

Even though we moved to Canada in the 1970s, you know, my genetic makeup is not made to be living in minus 20 degree weather for, you know, six months a year.

So that would certainly be another one.

And the third reason is, frankly,

The taxation system in Canada is so astounding.

And if you add Quebec and Canada, it becomes really impossible.

And so might as well go to the United States so I can experience my inner spirit, which is indeed American in reality.

I mean, it did, although suicidal empathy is something that regrettably has taken a hold of the entire West.

Canada is certainly at the forefront of being some of the biggest sufferer of that malady.

So I'll give you a few concrete examples.

You know, in Canada, we very much have doubled and tripled down on diversity, inclusion and equity.

And this certainly manifests itself in a myriad of ways within the university ecosystem.