New Brunswick forestry college purges critic of glyphosate and defender
Redmond believes “the management and governance of the college has failed to protect Cumberland and have facilitated his termination at the college because of vested interests who want to muzzle his professional opinions.”
“As past Executive Director, I experienced these attempts to sanction Rod for speaking up on this important wildlife issue. The other issues cited in his letter of termination that focus on his classroom management and teaching approaches are simply ‘window dressing’ to cover up the real reasons for his dismissal,” says Redmond, who has been an instructor at the forestry college since 2000 and was the college’s Executive Director from 2014 until his retirement in 2017.
One day after publicly defending Cumberland on CBC Radio on July 2, Redmond was told by the college that his teaching services were no longer required.