Humza Yousaf, a member of parliament from the Scottish National Party, will kick off Simon Fraser University’s annual free public Tartan Day on April 5.
Yousaf is Scotland’s first Muslim minister and a key advocate of Scotland’s current independence movement and a member of the party in power, according to an SFU press release.
Yousaf will deliver a talk on Scotland’s future at the April 5 event, dubbed “Tartan Day,” which runs from 10 a.m. to noon at SFU’s Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver.
Burnaby resident Leith Davis is organizing Tartan Day, which is an annual Scottish celebration, observing Scottish independence at the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
Davis is the director of SFU’s Centre for Scottish Studies and an English professor. She hopes to tie in SFU’s Tartan Day with discussing Scotland’s current efforts to break away from Britain.
“My students will hopefully be asking the minister many questions. For them, it’s a unique opportunity to engage in experiential learning,” says Davis.
