Nima Dorjee’s not suggesting a witch hunt, but asking Canadians to think critically about what we\u0027re getting out of relationships with China
Nima and I settle into MacHall’s uncomfortable steel chairs, coffees in hand. Exams loom and students look pensive. In 1989, when the Tiananmen massacre shocked the world, Nima was studying chemical engineering at this campus and had just been elected president of the students’ union. Born in a Tibetan refugee settlement in India, Nima moved to Calgary at the age of 15.
Nima is an engineer; in 2018, he was elected president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta . As president of the Project Tibet Society, Nima helped resettle more than 1,000 Tibetan refugees from northern India to Canada . These days, he’s spending time figuring out ways to re-engineer the role of Alberta’s engineering professionals in a brave new world where so much of their work is off-shored.
“The issue of Tibet and the Dalai Lama has become controversial,” Nima replies, explaining how the Dalai Lama was granted an honourary degree by the University of Calgary in 2009, at a very low-key ceremony, off campus, with no press release. Notwithstanding, China felt slighted, and removed the university from its list of recognized institutions for a couple years.
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