A Theory on Dal

In the writings of the med-school whistleblower that I have posted earlier, she draws attention to the oddity of Dalhousie University, a public institution chewing through billions of dollars, squat in the middle of one of the the most impoverished parts of Canada. This is quite a paradox, isn’t it?

Has anyone ever conducted a cost-benefit analysis on how exactly Dalhousie University benefits the province or the average Canadian taxpayer? Its prized Med school and other Graduate programs make professionals out of Maritimers, who ironically, move out….sometimes out of the country itself. They then use their non-Maritime earnings to pay the student loans they are drowning under. Wouldn’t it be more competitive to award these students with bursaries to pursue University in USA (which would be more cheaper and more advanced)?

It would be impossible to conduct a cost-benefit analysis because of the complexity, which is deliberately engineered. As you can see, instead of having several different graduate programs operating as independent Universities, Dalhousie is a giant mishmash of everything under one roof. And thus, it becomes exceedingly difficult to do a cost-benefit analysis of taxpayers funding a particular program. Instead, the taxpayers are giving a blank cheque to a “University,”^[1]As well as valuable public lands. which then decides what programs are relevant, and at what cost to the taxpayer.

Although it is impossible to prove without access to the salary figures of all personnel Dalhousie employs, and further correlation with their local background, such as their positions in British peerage and other secretive cabals, here’s a theory.

We do know that crypto-Phoenicians do make a sizeable part of the local population, say around 1%. The problem is that 1%, despite having links to old money and new opportunity, still need to finance their lifestyles at the expense of the taxpayer are still thieves and rapey robbers at heart. And this is where the billion-dollar-publicly-funded-University comes into play.

Of course, there are great Profs at Dal, who are clearly worthy of every cent of their salaries, pensions and benefits. And these are plebs who started out small, not elites or cryptos. But for every great Prof, there are seven more who are mediocre, and two more who clearly exist only for payroll, and nobody really knows why they were granted tenure.^[2]One Prof who fits this description is one I encountered at the St. Marys University School of Business. His only role in the program was collecting fake made-up business accounting figures from students and then running them through a “simulation” of his. Doing this was a Program Requirement! I clearly did not understand the point. But then I learnt he had big family ties, and was being compensated with the salary of a teaching Prof, although he was doing the work of a data entry clerk. Then there are many more administrative bigshots who collect fat salaries, but don’t teach, so nobody really knows much about their capabilities or relevance.

Now assume that the University is an op to divert taxpayer monies to local Phoenicians, in particular those who don’t have much going for them thanks to the broke economy. They may exist on payroll records as Profs, scientists and administrative bigshots.^[3]Additionally, Phoenician business would receive generous contracts if they operate law firms, construction companies and other utility companies but that’s not exactly what we are discussing here. But would you trust the average Nova Scotian to challenge their abilities? To the contrast, the average Nova Scotian pleb would be more than grateful for the scraps thrown to him/her/it and would happily police the lesser plebs. This kind of mentality is implicit. They don’t teach that in school and it is not documented, but it becomes a learned behavior which can greatly confuse non-locals. For example, even outside University, I found Halifax locals (and this was before the immigrants came) to be unnecessarily backstabby and competitive, even in laughable minimum wage jobs. I had a hard time grappling with the reality that I was dealing with covert opportunists disguised as firstworlders.

You may argue that “great research” is indeed being churned out. But again, who determines its relevance? Do you now understand why Dalhousie brands itself as a “Research” hub? Because what constitutes as relevant research is subjective.

Again, relevant research does exist. However there is an old trick that Phoenicians use to produce it. They continuously monitor talented, foreign students from poor countries. And when these students submit a winning research proposal for their degree, the Phoenician Profs and Program Directors offer a deal. The research will be published in their name, while the student will get some other kind of accommodation (access to higher programs, grants or residency/citizenship in the country). How do I know? An uncle of mine was doing research at a leading American University on diodes back in the 70s. His Prof offered a similar proposal but he refused. Things got so bad for him that he had to leave the United States.