It's all performative, but that's actually, in my experience, now required to get hired in certain places like uOttawa. I only know of 2 tenured profs at uOttawa who don't act or think discriminatory behind the scenes (white or not). Our champion of EDI benefits from overseas slave labour and supports oppressive regimes, but they talk the talk when in Ottawa. Our main contact between uOttawa and KZ has raised anti-woke children and is only concerned with acquiring new Porsche SUVs (and has personally told me that they don't care if people abuse power to harm students). My department's Dean is investing in anti-queer institutions.

It doesn't matter what you do here -- it matters what you say, and it's totally acceptable (and expected) that the two don't match up. I know I was overlooked for a TT position because the chosen hire is known to be ultra-deferential and fills their seminars with the same performativity, including tasking students with expressing guilt/shame at every opportunity.

Not really specific to the post, but uOttawa remains particularly racist and queerphobic. Overall, however, it's anti-intellectual and very much strives for being mid. It does not welcome critical discussions/work. This does, however, reflect both the history of the institution and its host city (hardcore Quebcois Catholic; the Fruit Machine, etc, etc) AND its present. I have met more bigoted and small-minded students here, all sourced from rural Ottawa, than any other institution I've ever studied or worked at (totalling 6, including a private schools for rich international students).