Last week, Lindsay Shepherd, a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, went public with a tape of a private meeting in which three faculty members reduced her to tears, berated her for creating a "toxic climate" in class and repeatedly suggested she'd broken Canada's new law enforcing the use of gender neutral pronouns.

Ironically, Shepherd got into hot water by showing students an interview clip of controversial professor and psychologist Jordan Peterson, who warned from the outset the law would lead to compelled speech in Canada.

Wilfred Laurier University's President and Vice-Chancellor Deborah MacLatchy released a letter Tuesday saying "through the media" she was able to listen to the audio of the meeting Shepherd had with three faculty members, and which Shepherd secretly taped.

"After listening to this recording, an apology is in order. The conversation I heard does not reflect the values and practices to which Laurier aspires. I am sorry it occurred in the way that it did and I regret the impact it had on Lindsay Shepherd."

Also releasing a public letter of apology was Shepherd's supervising professor Nathan Rambukkana, who organized the meeting, reported the National Post.

"Everything that has happened since the meeting has given me occasion to rethink not only my approach to discussing the concerns that day, but many of the things I said in our meeting as well," Rambukkana wrote.

Shepherd played a video in two communications tutorials of Peterson's interview with TVO's Agenda with Steve Paikin on the subject of the controversial Bill C-16.

Peterson predicted the bill, which prohibited discrimination based on "gender ideology and expression," would lead to "compelled speech" and forcing people to use gender neutral pronouns or neologisms such as "zer" and "ze."

After a student complained, Shepherd was summoned to the meeting with Rambukkana and associate professor Herbert Pimlott and Adria Joel, the university's manager of gendered violence prevention and support.

Rambukkana told Shepherd she should not have remained neutral about Peterson's views, and compared doing so to playing and not debunking a speech by Adolf Hitler.

In his apology, Rambukkana said he should have used different wording...

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