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Freedom of Information request into the hiring
and dismissal of Hassan Diab at Carleton
University in 2009 sheds light on the chain of
events that led to his termination in a
firestorm of controversy. </p>
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15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">Diab
was a suspect in a 1980 synagogue bombing in
Paris when it was revealed in the media that
he had been hired as a contract instructor in
sociology in the summer of 2009. He was
dismissed that same day. Diab was extradited
to France in November 2014. He was released
from a French prison on Jan. 12 after charges
were dropped and returned to Ottawa on Jan.
15.</p>
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Canadian Association of University Teachers
(CAUT) made the Freedom of Information request
after Diab was dismissed in 2009. In Ontario,
Freedom of Information allows members of the
public to ask public-sector organizations for
information they hold. The request uncovered
emails among university officials over hiring
Diab to cover a full-time professor who was
ill, what to tell the public about dismissing
him, and some discussion about how to handle
communications once the media spotlight turned
on Carleton. Most of the correspondence
centred an the events of July 28.</p>
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15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">Diab
was arrested by the RCMP in November 2008
after he was accused in France of killing four
people and injuring dozens more in the
synagogue bombing. In March 2009, he was
granted bail<span> </span><span
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strict conditions that included electronic
monitoring, a curfew, and a promise not to
leave his home unaccompanied. He was not
restricted from working.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">On
July 15, John Osborne, Carleton’s dean of arts
and social sciences, emailed Stephen Green,
the assistant director of human resources,
noting that a sociology professor had taken
medical leave and the department was
scrambling to find someone to cover an
introductory course and was proposing Diab as
a replacement.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">“Clearly
he has the qualifications to step in and teach
the course,” said Osborne. “Is there any legal
reason to preclude him from doing so?”</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">In
a July 16 response, Green noted that hiring
Diab “could cause harm to the reputation of
the University.” The email was cc’d to Peter
Ricketts, the provost and vice-president.
Ricketts responded: “I suspect the threat to
the reputation of the university is small
unless he were to be extradited while he was
teaching the course — which of course would
put us back into the same situation we are now
in. The concern that this may happen would be
another reason to find someone else if at all
possible.”</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">The
documents show Osborne signed Diab’s contract
on July 16. Diab signed on July 21.</p>
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July 28, this newspaper reported that Diab
was to<span> </span></span><span
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teaching at Carleton. Under his bail
conditions, he would<span> </span></span>be
required to travel to and from the university
with his court-appointed surety and common-law
spouse Rania Tfaily. However, once at the
university, Tfaily will not be required to
remain with Diab. There was immediate
reaction, both condemning the hiring and
supporting Diab.</p>
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15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">A
flurry of emails among university officials
tracked the course of events as they unfolded
that day.</p>
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15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">At
1:40 p.m., Jacques Shore, then chairman of the
board of governors, forwarded an email he had
received from Jewish Canada at 12:39 p.m. to
Carleton’s then-president, Roseann Runte. The
email included a news release from the Jewish
advocacy group B’nai Brith.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">“The
conditions of Diab’s bail do not allow him to
leave his home alone or to own a cell phone,
but Carleton officials believe that it is fine
for them to make him a member of their
faculty?” the release said, quoting B’nai
Brith’s Canada’s executive vice president
Frank Dimant. “The last place in the world
where this man belongs is a university
classroom, in front of impressionable
students.”</p>
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15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">In
a note to herself, Runte noted at 4:15 p.m.
that the message from Shore was the first
occurrence she could find of receiving
electronic communication of anything from
B’nai Brith. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">Meanwhile,
at 3:46 p.m., the director of university
communications, Jason MacDonald, forwarded a
statement on Diab’s status, which would be
sent to the media. “In the interest of
providing students with a stable, productive
academic environment that is conducive to
learning Carleton University announced today
that a full-time faculty member, with direct
experience teaching introductory sociology
(SOCI 1002) will replace the current
instructor, Hassan Diab, immediately. No
further comment will be made regarding this
issue.”</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">At
4:01, Ricketts sent a draft of the letter of
termination to be sent to Diab. The letter
said the university had found a full-time
faculty member to take over the course and
added that Diab would be compensated for the
weeks he taught the course. (In an email dated
the following day, Ricketts’s office said Diab
would be paid $1,477 for the work he had done
so far, but the office wanted to pay him for
the total contract, which was $4,431.)</p>
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Runte and the communications department were
anticipating meeting the media face-to-face.
In a July 29 email to MacDonald, Runte
discusses the possibility that media might be
present at a planned meeting between herself
and sociology professors. She asked whether it
would be possible to invite the department to
the Tory building or “somewhere where we could
control admission,” then adds that might not
be a good idea.</p>
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we could meet the department and refuse to
speak with them if media are present? That
might be hard to enforce … I think it might
not be good to be faced with cameras if our
goal is not to comment.”</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">James
Turk was executive director at CAUT when Diab
was dismissed. Now director at the Centre for
Free Expression at Ryerson University and an
adjunct research professor at Carleton, Turk
said the email trails merely clarifies what
was already known about Diab’s termination.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">“There
was nothing that had changed about his ability
to do his job. It was simply responding to
public pressure led by B’nai Brith.” </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">Decisions
about who teaches should be made on
professional, not political grounds, said
Turk. “The judge said it was OK for him to
continue teaching. The university said it was
OK for him to continue teaching. There was no
suggestion of anything inappropriate. They
simply caved to public pressure.”</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">In
response to questions from this newspaper,
Carleton said Diab’s employment was ended for
administrative, non-disciplinary reasons and
the university managed the dismissal the best
way it could. “Diab was paid in full and
Carleton preserved his seniority. The decision
was based on classroom safety concerns and
minimizing disruptions to students. CUPE 4600
launched a grievance on Diab’s behalf and
there were five days of hearings in 2009. The
grievance was dropped by the union on Dec, 3,
2009 and the matter was settled,” Carleton
said in a statement on Friday.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">If
the same scenario with a different instructor
were to happen today, would the university
handle it differently? this newspaper asked
Carleton.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
15px;padding:0px;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6;font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">“Ensuring
student safety in the classroom and across
campus guided decisions taken in 2009,” a
spokesman responded. “Safety would always be a
paramount priority in any similar
circumstance.”</p>
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