The Gazette: McGill distances itself from ‘savages’ comment
McGill University’s board of governors has dissociated itself from a comment by its chancellor, Richard Pound, in which he referred to native people here as savages. It issued a statement yesterday saying the university does not agree with the comments Pound made to a La Presse reporter in August in Beijing.
At the time, he was contrasting 5,000 years of Chinese civilization with that which existed here 400 years ago, when Canada was populated by about 10,000 people from Europe and the native population. The country at the time was “un pays des sauvages,” Pound was quoted as having said. In a recent interview, Pound said he had made a clumsy comment that was taken out of context.
Pound’s comments “are his own and are not made on behalf of McGill,” the university said.
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