Promoting perversity

Michael Coren Journalist for Life

In early July the Toronto police arrested a man named Benjamin Levin, who most of us had never heard of. That was all about to change. The 61-year-old Levin was charged with seven counts of child exploitation, including charges of possessing and accessing child pornography, and was released into his brother’s custody on $100,000 bail. He has three brothers actually. One was, for 17 years, the books editor of the Globe and Mail, another is Canada’s ambassador to Cuba, and a third the Registrar at the University of Toronto. In other words, a power elite family.

Levin himself is very much part of that elite. He is an educationalist who has influenced schools and teachers all over the world, including Canada, and in particular Toronto, was a member of Kathleen Wynne’s transition team when she became Ontario premier, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), which is sadly vital in guiding this country’s teaching methods, and was also deputy minister of education in Ontario between 2004 and 2009 – the senior bureaucrat in the entire department.  (more...)

Promoting perversity