It's unfair of me to criticize the University when it denied a group permission to rally even before the application was made? Your standards of fairness seem to be rather selective.

The University of Toronto is a PUBLIC university, funded by the public. It receives those funds while claiming to offer a space where all ideas can come together and be heard. And indeed, the U of T does allow groups to speak there all the time.

The U of T owes a duty of due diligence when members of the public wish to use its space for that purpose. By all means they may reject an application on safety grounds, or because space isn't available, or for any other practical reason.  But to deny a group a place to speak for the reasons the president gave is unacceptable. He's discriminated against a Canadian right-wing group by equating them to violent neo-Nazis in another country.

You'd think a university president would be able to discern facts from hysteria. Evidently not.