Very good article. However, Prof. Montpetit should look to his own discipline, political science, which pushes tendentious and politically-skewed research and research methods, to conform to reigning political trends, all called "avoidance of appropriation" or simple suppression of funding.
Other than that, it was the nationalist faculty body at Université de Montréal which signed a petition against the university's rector, for having denounced the PQ's racist Charter of Values because the Charter did in Quebec universities what totalitarians had done in Europe. I must add however, that, to his great credit, Montpetit put his name on a letter to the nationalist government denouncing that very Charter.