President of construction firm won't hire students from schools with divestment movements

I am a little frustrated by the divestiture strategies of University endowments that do not support Oil and Gas. So, if they can’t support us, we can’t hire their students.

Writing in a LinkedIn post on Friday, Peter Kiss, president and CEO of Morgan Construction, vowed not to hire students from the University of British Columbia or Queens University. Kiss later retracted his statements, after the post—unsurprisingly—sparked controversy.

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