Renowned psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson lost his court challenge against Ontario’s college of psychologists today. The college sought to force Peterson into training on how to conduct himself on social media as a condition of remaining a licensed psychologist. Peterson took the matter to an Ontario court, which ruled today that the condition doesn’t actually hinder his right to freedom of expression. Canadian Constitution Foundation lawyer Josh Dehaas joins the Andrew Lawton Show to discuss.
Also, Catherine McKenna thinks Conservative politicians need their own mandatory education on climate change. True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in.
Plus, is artificial intelligence leading to the end of thought? Christopher Snook tackles that question in an essay for C2C Journal titled “AI, the Destruction of Thought and the End of the Humanities.” He joins the show to explain.
TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is disappointed in the result in the judicial review of a case between public intellectual Dr Jordan Peterson and the College of Psychologists of Ontario. The dispute is over professional penalties, in the form of mandatory training, imposed on Dr Peterson by the College. This order for training was a result of public statements Dr Peterson had made on social media. The comments did not relate to the practice of psychology. The complaints were made by members of the public, not by any individuals who Dr Peterson had ever treated as a patient.
The CCF was an intervener in the judicial review, arguing that professionals have private lives and regulators may not discipline for off-duty conduct that lacks a clear nexus to the profession. Where off-duty conduct engages a Charter right, like freedom of expression, regulators have a heightened duty to ensure they have given full effect to the Charter protection.
“We are disappointed in this result, which we think could have a chilling effect on people in other regulated professions, like doctors, lawyers, teachers and accountants,” said CCF Litigation Director Christine Van Geyn. “Professionals should not have to soft pedal their speech for fear that activists will weaponize regulatory bodies so that unpopular speech is penalized, even when there is no connection between that speech and the profession.”
The Divisional Court did not accept Dr Peterson’s argument that his comments were “off duty” and outside his role as a psychologist. Writing for the court, Justice Schabas found that Dr Peterson “cannot speak as a member of a regulated profession without taking responsibility for the risk of harm that flows from him speaking in that trusted capacity.”
“We hope that Dr Peterson will appeal this result, which will have long lasting impacts beyond his case. The right to freedom of expression must be given more weight than the court gave it here, and the mere assertion of risk of harm is not enough. While controversial and inflammatory, there is no suggestion that any of the people Dr Peterson made comments about were harmed in any way, and indeed, they were not the source of the complaints. Complaints were made by members of the public who simply did not like what Dr Peterson said, or worse, how he said it. This is not a sufficient basis for action by the regulator when weighed against Dr Peterson’s constitutional right to freedom of expression,” said Van Geyn.
The CCF is represented in this case by George Avraam, Ahmed Shafey and Juliette Mestre of Baker McKenzie LLP. The CCF is grateful for their hard work and diligence on this case. If Dr Peterson appeals, the CCF will seek leave to intervene.
TODAY, Jordan Peterson’s court battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s is coming to a conclusion!
As you may know, the College is seeking to not only silence Peterson’s common sense opinions on Twitter but they want to “re-educate” him by ordering him to attend radical and progressive Twitter “communication training.”
But, the matter is now before the Ontario Divisional Court which is scheduled to release its ruling by the end of the day.
The court will decide Peterson’s fate and will also decide if the College’s order to send Peterson to Twitter communication “camp”, or else lose his license because they disagree with his conservative worldview, is justifiable.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition, directed to Zimra Yetnikoff, Director, Investigations and Hearings at the College of Psychologists of Ontario, telling the College to drop all disciplinary action against Dr. Peterson. Thank you!
The College of Psychologists of Ontario threatens to revoke Jordan Peterson’s license to practice psychology within Canada and Ontario over his conservative-leaning political views.
Why are they taking this extreme action against Peterson’s professional life?
Because they disagree with Peterson’s personal beliefs, especially when he expresses them within the public sphere, which includes social platforms like Twitter.
The College is abusing its regulator power over Peterson’s ability to practice in order to control what he can and can not say publicly as a private individual.
Furthermore, they demand that Peterson undergoes “social media communications retraining,” including “coaching” for his Twitter commentary, or potentially face license suspension.
This is all happening to Jordan Peterson because he publicly disagrees with the mainstream progressive narrative, especially when he speaks out against the damage the LGBT community and Trudeau Liberals continually inflict upon Canadian culture and society.
We need your help to push back against their terrible abuse of power, especially when Jordan Peterson is due back in court any day when his fate, regarding his legal challenge against the College of Psychologists, will be decided.
We must firmly declare that no public institution, including the College of Psychologists of Ontario, has the power to strip any individual’s right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We cannot allow the College of Psychologists to silence someone like Jordan Peterson, who has consistently provided a voice of reason, clarity, and common sense against the extreme LGBT madness and totalitarian government coercion here in Canada.
Sign now and take a stand with Jordan Peterson against the College’s blatant attack on an individual’s RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH!
Drop the Disciplinary Action Against Jordan Peterson
To Zimra Yetnikoff, Director, Investigations and Hearings,
I request that you drop all disciplinary action against Doctor Jordan Peterson because the College of Psychologists of Ontario is overstepping its boundaries to control Doctor Peterson’s Right to Free Speech.
As a public institution, the College does not have the right to use its regularity power to infringe upon its members’ individual rights as Canadian citizens.
Doctor Peterson has the same rights as any other ordinary Canadian outside of practicing clinical psychology within his office. He has the same rights as any other Canadian citizen to express his personal beliefs publicly.
Stop using the regulatory powers of the College of Psychologists to silence Doctor Peterson because other members of the College simply disagree with his personal opinions on Twitter. [Your Name]
Pelagius was a Celtic monk who lived in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Although he was born somewhere in the British Isles, he lived most of his life in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths. Following the Fall of Rome he fled to Carthage and spent the remainder of his life in the region of North Africa and Palestine. This was hardly a quiet retirement for it was in this period that the preaching of his disciple Caelestius brought him increasingly under the scrutiny of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Jerome and led to his teachings being condemned by multiple regional synods, his excommunication by Innocent I of Rome in 417 AD, and finally, the following year which was the year of his death, the most sweeping condemnation of his teachings as heresy at the Council of Carthage, the rulings of which would later be ratified by the third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431 AD making the condemnation of Pelagius and Pelagianism the verdict of the whole Church in the days before her ancient fellowship was broken.
What did Pelagius teach that was so vehemently rejected by the early, undivided, Church?
Pelagianism was the idea that after the Fall man retained the ability to please God and attain salvation through his own efforts and by his own choices unassisted by the Grace of God. Expressed as a negation of Christian truth it was a denial of Original Sin and of the absolute necessity of God’s Grace.
Over a millennium later the Protestant Reformers, strongly influenced by the teachings of St. Augustine, would read their own conflict with the Patriarch of Rome through the lens of the earlier Pelagian controversy although the Pelagian controversy had to do with the absolute necessity of God’s Grace whereas the controversy in the Reformation had to do with the sufficiency of God’s Grace. This led to further distortions of historical understanding of the earlier controversy so that in certain theological circles, particularly those who identify so strongly as Calvinists that in their hierarchy of doctrine they place the canons of the Synod of Dort in the top tier, make those matters on which all the Reformers agreed – the supreme authority of Scripture and the sufficiency of the freely given Grace of God in Christ for salvation – secondary, and assign the truths of the ancient Creeds to a tertiary position, any positive statements concerning Free Will are looked upon as either Pelagian or a step down the slippery slope to Pelagianism.
Free Will, however, is not some aberration invented by Pelagius, but a truth held by all the ancient orthodox Churches alongside Original Sin. Neither is confessed in the Creed, because neither is Creed appropriate, but both are part of the body of the supplementary truths that help us to understand Gospel truth, the truth confessed in the Creed. Free Will and Original Sin are complementary truths. Apart from Free Will, the only explanation for Adam’s having committed the sin that brought sin and death upon his descendants, is some version of supralapsarianism, the repugnant and blasphemous hyper-Calvinist doctrine of Theodore Beza that teaches that God decreed the Fall of Man to occur in order that He might have grounds to punish people He had already decided to damn.
Why did God give man Free Will if He knew man would abuse it and fall into sin?
If God had not given man Free Will, man would not be a moral creature made in God’s own image, but would rather be like a rock or a tree. Man without Free Will would have the same capacity for Good that a rock and a tree have. Rocks and trees perform their Good – the reason for which they exist – not because they choose to do so, but because they have no choice. This is a lower order of Good than the Good which moral beings do because they choose to do it. God created man as a higher being with a higher order of Good and so He gave man Free Will because man could not fulfil this higher Good without Free Will. Without the possibility of sin, there was no possibility of man fulfilling the Good for which he was created.
Original Sin impaired man’s Free Will and in doing so placed a major roadblock in the way of man’s fulfilment of the Good for which he was created. When Adam sinned he bound himself and all his posterity in slavery to sin. The ancient sages, such as Plato, urged man to employ his will in subjecting his passions to the rule of his reason or intellect. They understood that the worst slavery a man could endure is not that which is imposed from the outside by laws, customs, or traditions but that which is imposed from the inside when a man is ruled by his passions. This is the closest than man could come to understanding his plight without special revelation. When Western man in the post-World War II era turned his back on Christian truth he abandoned even this insight and began embracing the idea taught by Sigmund Freud et al. that liberating the passions rather than ruling them was the path to human happiness. Although the evidence of experience has long since demonstrated this to be folly Western man continues down this path to misery. The salvation that God has given to man in Jesus Christ frees us from this bondage to the sin principle, which rules us through what Plato called our passions and St. Paul called our flesh. This is why the work of Jesus Christ accomplishing our salvation is spoken of as redemption, the act of purchasing a slave’s freedom from bondage.
God created man in a state of Innocence which is an immature form of Goodness. Man in his Innocence possessed Free Will and was sinless but lacked knowledge and maturity. He was not intended to remain in this state but to grow into Perfection, Goodness in its mature form. The Fall into Original Sin interrupted the process of maturation and would have been ultimately fatal to it were it not for the Grace of God and the salvation given to man in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, which Grace of salvation frees us from the bondage to sin into which we fell that we might finally grow in Christ into Perfection, the maturity of freedom with knowledge, in which we voluntarily choose the Good. If we could somehow remove man’s ability to choose evil this would in no way assist man in his journey, by God’s Grace, to Perfection. This is the Christian truth illustrated by Anthony Burgess in his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) The experimental technique to which the narrator submitted in order to obtain a reduced sentence, succeeded in removing his ability to commit violent crime, but failed to turn him into a good person. In the novel, Alex does eventually become a better person but not as a result of the Ludovico Technique. (1)
I recently remarked that the orthodox arguments for the necessity of Free Will for man to choose the Good can also be applied to Truth to make a more compelling case for free speech than the one rooted in classical liberalism that is usually so employed. I wish to expand upon that idea here. Think again of Burgess’s novel. The Ludovico Technique rendered Alex incapable of committing violent crime – or even of acting in legitimate self defence – by causing him to experience nauseating sickness and pain at even the thought of doing the things that had landed him in prison, but it did not change his inner nature, it merely prevented him from acting on it. Now imagine a story in which a similar form of extreme aversion therapy to the Ludovico Technique is developed, not for a violent, rapist, thug but for a compulsive liar, (2) which similarly prevents him from speaking what he knows not to be true. This would not remove his internal compulsion to lie and make him naturally truthful, it would merely prevent him from acting on the compulsion.
If it is important, both to us as individuals and to the larger society to which we belong, that we develop good character by cultivating good habits, then it is important that we cultivate the habit of speaking the Truth to the best of our understanding. By adapting the lesson of Burgess’ novel as we did in the last paragraph, we saw that artificially removing the ability to do other than speak what we understand to be the Truth is not the way to achieve the cultivation of this habit. In the actual contemporary society in which we live, we are increasingly having to contend with constraints on our freedom of speech, not through experimental aversion therapy, but through laws and regulations telling us what we can and cannot say.
These come in two forms. The first and most basic are rules prohibiting speech – “you can’t say that”. The second are rules compelling speech – “you have to say this”. This distinction has in recent years been emphasized by Dr. Jordan Peterson after he ran afoul of a particularly egregious but sadly now almost ubiquitous example of compelled speech – the requirement to use a person’s expressed preference in pronouns rather those that align with the person’s biological sex. Here, the speech that is compelled is speech that falls far short of Truth. Indeed, the people who want this sort of compelled speech are generally the same people who speak of Truth with possessive pronouns as if each of us had his own Truth which is different from the Truth of others.
The rules that prohibit certain types of speech are no more respectful towards Truth. Here in the Dominion of Canada, the rules of this type that have plagued us the most in my lifetime are speech prohibitions enacted in the name of fighting “hate”. The very first in a long list of sins against Truth committed by those seeking to eradicate “hate speech” is their categorizing the speech they seek to outlaw as hateful. Hate refers to an intense emotional dislike that manifests itself in the desire to utterly destroy the object of hatred. This is a more appropriate description of the attitude of the people who call for, enact, and support “hate speech” laws towards their victims more than it does the attitude of said victims towards those they supposedly hate. The first calls for laws of this nature came from representatives of an ethnic group that has faced severe persecution many times throughout history and which, wishing to nip any future such persecution in the bud, asked for legislation prohibiting what they saw as the first step in the development of persecution, people depicting them very negatively in word and print. The government capitulated to this demand twice, first by adding such a prohibition to the Criminal Code, second by including a provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act that made the spread of information “likely to” expose someone to “hatred or contempt” into grounds for an anti-discrimination lawsuit. The CHRA provision was eventually removed from law by Act of Parliament but the present government is seeking to bring it back in a worse form, one that would allow for legal action to be taken against people based on the suspicion that they will say something “hateful” in the future rather than their having already said some such thing. The campaign against “hate speech” has from the very beginning resembled the actions taken against “precrime” in Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report (1956) in that both are attempts to stop something from happening before it happens, but the new proposed legislation would take the resemblance to the nth degree. Early in the history of the enforcement of these types of laws the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the lack of a truth exception did not render the limitations they imposed on freedom of speech unconstitutional in Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor (1990). More recently this notion of truth not being a defense was reiterated by Devyn Cousineau of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in a discrimination case against Christian evangelist and activist Bill Whatcott. Whatcott had been charged with discrimination for distributing a flyer challenging a politician who had been born a biological male but who claims to be female. Cousineau made the statement in ruling against the relevance of evidence the defense intended to present as to the complainant’s biological maleness. Clearly, if the upholding of laws restricting freedom of speech on the grounds of “hate” require rulings to the effect that truth is no defense, then these laws are no servants of Truth.
That, as we have just seen, those seeking to restrict speech are serving something other than Truth, something they are willing to sacrifice Truth for, is a good indicator that it is free speech that is the servant of Truth. Further analysis confirms this. If speech is restricted by prohibitions – “you can’t say that” – then unless those who make the prohibitions are both incorruptible and infallible, it is likely that much that is prohibited will be Truth. If speech is compelled – “you must say this” – then again, unless those compelling us to speak are both incorruptible and infallible, it is likely that what we will be compelled to say will not be the Truth. The good habit of truth-telling, which we ought to seek to cultivate in ourselves, in which cultivation the laws and institutions of society ought to support us, is a habit of caring about the Truth, searching for the Truth, and speaking the Truth. Restrictions on speech, rather than helping us cultivate this habit, teach us to take the alternate, lazier, route of letting other people rather than the Truth determine what we must and must not say.
Even restrictions on speech aimed at preventing the spread of untruths ultimately work against the speaking of Truth. As long as there are such restrictions, especially if the penalties for breaking them are severe, there will be something other than Truth to which people will look to determine whether or not they should say something, and the result will be that less Truth will be spoken out of fear of running afoul of the restrictions.
The classic liberal case for free speech was made by utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill in his On Liberty (1856). It is the topic of his second chapter “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion” which begins by arguing that this freedom is necessary not only when governments are tyrannical and corrupt, but under the best of governments as well, even or especially, when governments have public opinion behind them. “If all mankind minus one were of one opinion”, Mill wrote “and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” In support of the position taken in these justifiably famous words, Mill’s first argument was that mankind is better off for having all opinions, false or true, expressed, because the expression of the false, makes the true stand out the more. He wrote:
the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
In what he stated here, Mill was quite right. Unfortunately, what he meant by truth, small t, is not the same thing as Truth, big T. Mill wrote and thought within what might be called an anti-tradition that started within Western thought almost a millennium ago with nominalism and which has produced a downward spiral of decay within Western thought. Mill came at a late stage in this anti-tradition, although not so far down the spiral as to think that truth is entirely subjective and different for each person as so many do today. It had been set in that direction, however, by nominalism’s rejection of universals, whether conceived of as Plato’s otherworldly Forms existing in themselves or Aristotle’s embodied Ideas existing in their corresponding particulars, except as human constructions that we impose on reality by our words so as to facilitate in the organization of our thoughts. By so departing from the foundation of the tradition of Western thought, nominalism introduced an anti-tradition that over time came more and more to resemble an embrace of Protagoras of Abdera’s maxim “man is the measure of all things”. In the wisdom of the ancient sages, Truth, like Beauty and Goodness, were the supreme universals. Philosophically, they were the Transcendentals, the properties of Being or existence. In Christian theology, they existed in God Himself not as attributes or properties, but as His fundamental nature. Human happiness, however the philosophical and theological answers to the question of how it is attained differed (the Grace of God is the theological answer), consisted in life ordered in accordance with Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Mill’s small t truth is worlds removed from this and this weakens what is otherwise a good argument against restrictions on the free expression of thought. If truth is not Truth, an absolute ultimate value in itself which we must seek and submit to upon peril of loss of happiness, but something which may or may not be available to us because we can never be certain that that what we think is truth is actually truth, then it is a far less compelling argument for allowing all thought to be freely expressed in words that it serves truth better than restrictions would. It opens the door to the idea that there is something that might be more important to us than truth, for which truth and the freedom that serves it might be sacrificed. Indeed, Mill provided the enemies of Truth and freedom with that very something else, earlier in the first, introductory, chapter of his book in which he articulated his famous “harm principle”. He wrote:
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
On the surface, this seems like a principle that could do nothing but safeguard people against the abuse of government power. In our day, however, we can see how it is actually a loophole allowing the government to justify any and all abuse of power. Our government, for example, is currently using it to justify its bid to bring the flow of information entirely under its own control. The Liberal Party of Canada, which is the party currently in office, has made combatting what it calls “Online Harms” part of its official platform. The Liberals’ not-so-thinly-veiled intention is enacting this goal is to bring in sweeping internet regulation that will give them total control over what Canadians can say or write or see or hear on the internet. Neither freedom nor Truth is a high priority for the Liberals, nor have they been for a long time, if they ever were. The late Sir Peregrine Worsthorne years ago wrote that by defeating its old foes, and turning its attention to declaring war “on human, and even eventually animal, pain and suffering” and thus introducing the necessity for vast expansion of government power, liberalism “from being a doctrine designed to take government off the backs of the people” had rapidly become “a doctrine designed to put it back again”, and, he might have added, in a more burdensome manner than ever before.
Mill was right that truth is better served by allowing all thoughts to be freely expressed, even false ones. Apart from the acknowledgement of Truth as Truth, the absolute unchanging universal value, however, the argument is weak. Within the context of liberalism, it is doomed to give way to that ideology’s insatiable lust to control everyone and everything, in the insane belief that it is protecting us from ourselves, and re-making the world better than God originally made it. When we acknowledge Truth as Truth, we recognize that it is what it is and that it is unchangeable and so no lie can harm it. Lies harm us, not the Truth, by getting in our way in our pursuit of Truth, but attempts to restrict and regulate the free verbal expression of thought, even when done in the name of combatting falsehoods, do far more harm of this type than lies themselves could ever do. Just as men need free will to choose the Good, we need the freedom to speak our thoughts, right or wrong, in order to pursue and find and speak the Truth.
(1) The chapter containing this ending was omitted from the American edition of the novel and from Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film adaptation based on the American edition.
(2) The idea of preventing a liar from lying has been explored in fiction. The science fiction device of truth serum is one common way of doing this. Note that the real life interrogative drugs upon which this device is based, such as scopolamine and sodium thiopental, don’t actually compel someone to tell the truth, they just make him more likely to answer questions put to him. In Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) the title puppet, a compulsive liar, is not prevented from lying, but prevented from getting away with it, by the device of his nose growing whenever he tells a lie. Closer is the 1997 film Liar, Liar, starring Jim Carrey as a lawyer whose son is magically granted his birthday wish that his father be unable to tell a lie for 24 hours. William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the polygraph or lie detector, under the penname of Charles Marston created the comic book superheroine Wonder Woman and gave the character a magic lasso that compelled anyone trapped in it to speak the truth. None of these stories was written with the idea of the necessity of freedom of speech for genuine truth telling in mind. — Gerry T. Neal
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Sunday, April 16th, 1 to 3 p.m. 2020 Main Street, Corner of Main & Warren, Penticton.THIS WEEKReports from Canada-Wide Freedom Rising Team, BC Rising & Alberta Rising, Penticton Council Bylaws Open HousePlus wisdom from Saturday’s workshop on “How to Form a Community Survive and Thrive Group”, and from Friday’s SOGI 123 Zoom Meeting with Kari Simpson.PLUS OPEN MIC.April Druthers – need someone to make delivery to shops in Osoyoos * · What is the 50-30 Agenda and what can we do about it?Future dates:April 23 Potluck at Skaha Lake Park at the Gazebo, following the Rally that day.Surprise speakers are a common occurrence at our rallies. Miss a week and you miss a lot!
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ACTIONS OF THE WEEKWitness History in the Making – Watch the National Citizen’s Led Inquiry LIVE!Recorded sessions are also available online. https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/ Thursday to Saturday, April 13 @ 9:00 am – April 15 @ 5:00 pm Winnipeg, ManitobaList of Expert Witnesses attachedTen Must-See Expert Testimonies – Attachedhttps://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/ dropdown Media tab, select from there for live and saved videos including Dr. Jordan Peterson’s testimony in Truro. Visit the rest of the site to get all the news, and see who is testifying next.
IT – COULD – BE – YOU – OR SOMEONE YOU RECOGNIZE! IMPORTANT ACTIONS WHILE ON THE SITEHelp educate, create awareness, and involve all Canadians! Print and share poster & postcards – find HERE (also available at P4F Rallies) Sign Petition HERE (over 60,000 signatures – target 100,000) Buy NCI SWAG HERE Hearing Schedule HEREhttps://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/
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Bill 36 Action~ The crucial independent and industry-specific regulation of regulated professions will be eliminated under Bill 36. Instead of bureaucrats who will operate in the best interests of the government, not the public or professionals, governance is best handled by people with the necessary skills, such as those who directly provide health solutions. Another point of contention is the government’s decision to attack and reform private health care when it is obvious that hospital and community medicine are in danger of failing. You can rapidly confirm this teetering implosion by talking to emergency personnel or hospital professionals. Under their control, politicians have systematically destroyed healthcare. Join the Local Bill 36 Action Print your own copies of the two letters and the Bill 36 petition and drop them off at alternative Health Care clinics and Businesses. Check with Laureen at our rallies for a list of locations already petitioned to avoid duplication. TAKE ACTION Thank you Laureen, for initiating this ongoing project. And to Lynn, Shar, Darlene, Gloria, Carol and others for your hard work on this initiative. Join the team and get updates at our rallies on Sundays at our Penticton4Freedom rallies https://www.cssem.org/bill36
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We are truly living in crazy times. My friends at the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition have reported disturbing recommendations from the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) that were presented to the House of Commons on February 15, 2023.
AMAD recommended an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada that would extend euthanasia to “mature” minors!Sign and tell Justice Minister David Lametti and the Government of Canada it is WRONG TO EUTHANIZE CHILDREN. Unfortunately, AMAD has more terrible recommendations. Another tabled recommendation stated that the Government of Canada makes child euthanasia accessible without parental consent. It goes even further, declaring that if the parents of a child, who wants euthanasia say “No!” but the child has “the requisite decision-making capacity,” the child’s request for euthanasia would override their parents’ consent and concern for their son or daughter. These amendments imply that parents and guardians may not be alerted in the decision to administer assisted suicide to their child, who is determined “capable of decision-making.” Please sign and stop this insidious agenda towards legally murdering innocent children.Where did these crazy and reckless recommendations come from?
They are based on an article titled “Medical Assistance in Dying at a paediatric hospital,” published in The Journal of Medical Ethics. The paper originated from a committee at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.This committee actively investigated how to best implement euthanasia for children without the knowledge or consent of their parents. With your help, we can take a stand and ensure child euthanasia remains illegal here in Canada. Sign now to STOP this madness and protect our most vulnerable, including the children at Sick Kids.
The WHO is dangerously close to gaining new, legally binding powers that threaten our civil liberties and national sovereignty. The so-called “Pandemic Treaty” would centralize global governance, erode individual freedoms, and undermine effective health policies. We must act now to protect our rights and personal autonomy! Sign the petition today and urge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to oppose this dangerous treaty before it’s too late! SIGN THE PETITION!——————————- o0o————————————-
WORTH A LOOKShawn Buckley’s Opening Statement – Day 3 A powerful opening statement from the lead council for the NCI on day 3 in Toronto. Buckley explains that giving up personal responsibility for our actions is how we got to where we are today. WATCH——————————- o0o————————————- “How to Form a Community Survive and Thrive Group Workshop (and Potluck). Tickets are selling fast.Tomorrow – April 15th – Lake CountryThe Unity Health & Sciences group in Kelowna are hosting the all-day workshop on Saturday, April 15th, in Lake Country. Everything you need to know about the workshop is on the poster and in the links provided below. (NOTE: This event is not suitable for children under age 16). Penticton4Freedom will sponsor up to 4 attendees, and reimburse attendees who are willing to share their reports at one of our rallies, with a receipt. If you wish to pay cash, rather than register and pay online, contact Mary Lou by return email. 1. Workshop promo video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3TveC9RDbI 2. Web info with flyer and details: https://unitymovement.ca/events/
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Our 29th issue for April 2023 is out and it’s a real eye-opener!! (Available at our Penticton4Freedom Rallies)• Unfortunately we had to print a shorter run than we hoped, for lack of funds. Each issue is funded separately, with rarely any leftover money for the next one. We’re aiming to print 300,000 copies of the May 2023 Druthers So please use this link to make a donation. Your kind contributions are the only way this paper keeps happening. donorbox.org/druthers So many thanks for your continued love and support. We are making a difference! Shawn Jason & the Druthers crew Read The April Issue Covering news and information that mainstream media won’t. Read DRUTHERS
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Leaders in Dialogue is Co-hosted by former medical rep Lindsay Gabelhouse and former Global Vancouver newscast director Anita Krishna, this talk will cover important issues about the kids and how we can better serve and protect them. Have you heard about the Infants Act and Mature Minor Consent? Are you concerned about what’s being taught in our schools? Have you ever felt like the media only gives one side of the story or that the government is lying to us?
Guest speakers include Tanya Gaw, from Action 4 Canada, Sean Taylor, a former ER nurse (including pediatric) and military vet, and Dr Robert Johnson, a practicing dentist in BC. This talk will include a few short presentations, some lively discussions about what’s happening in our schools and public health system, plus plenty of time for audience Q and A. Special performances by Mitch Murphy (aka The Red Pill Rapper) and his awesome wife, Hailey.
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Join David on A4C Empower Hour
Wed. 4:30 p.m.
Smart Cities, Your Rights and More
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 4:30pm PST/7:30pm EST Register in Advance. The zoom doors open at 4:30pm PST and the Empower Hour begins at 5pm PST/8pm EST.
We are pleased that David Lindsay, co-founder of Common Law Education and Rights (CLEAR), is once again joining us on the next Empower Hour. Tanya and David will discuss the concerns about the 15 Minute Cities, David’s extensive Webinar series on a variety of Constitutional issues, and much more. The goal is to get you pumped up and educated so that you can walk out your freedom with boldness and confidence. Learn more about our guest and share the Empower Hour invite HERE.
Come out and support David against more Gov’t corruption as they continue to try and shut down our leaders and freedom activists
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The fact that the Canadian “authorities” have concluded that the Trucker convoy conspired an insurrection severe enough to warrant war measures action by the feds should strike horror into the heart of every Canadian who values freedom
Jordan Peterson
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Know Your Rights:
Guidelines for Peaceful Protesting/Gathering/Rallies and/or Attending Events (eg. Council Meetings, School Boards, Handing out Flyers)
Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Pick the time that works for you:
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAP
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
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Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s Powerful Advice for a Broken Canada
The past few weeks have been a ‘wild ride’. We witnessed media hype over supposed UFO sightings and shootdowns, media silence on catastrophic train derailments, and obfuscation from those in positions of leadership, including on the topic of foreign interference in our elections. That was rounded out yesterday when an ostensibly neutral commission, ignoring glaring evidence, brought in the anticipated ruling of ‘no harm, no foul’ regarding the invoking of the Emergencies Act.
As if these were not enough, a parliamentary committee decided that killing citizens with taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be limited to adults, the Canadian government wants to help end minors’ lives as well. One of the baseline thresholds for a civilized democracy is the protection of her weak and innocent. Apparently not the case in Canada, circa 2023. In the face of crumbling foundations, Canada needs grounded leaders able to foresee pitfalls, discern lies and recognize true danger, and who continue to walk with steadfast resolve through the emergent chaos. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the courageously principled author and dissident, was asked to address Harvard in 1978 after he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. We’ve heard much about rights and freedoms this past year (I’ve said plenty myself), but freedom is not an end in itself.
I recommend you read the entire address, but the excerpt below was highly prescient, piercing to the core of our current national crisis:
“In early democracies, all individual human rights were granted on the ground that man is God’s creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding one thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual be granted boundless freedom with no purpose, simply for the satisfaction of his whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were eroded everywhere in the West; a total emancipation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. The West has finally achieved the rights of man, and even to excess, but man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistic selfishness of the Western approach to the world has reached its peak and the world has found itself in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.”
Our loss of a collective moral rudder has the good ship Canada drifting toward rocky shores. It’s why we’ve focused lately on the work to be done closer to home, daily; connecting locally for support and spiritual grounding; being the best spouse, friend, or parent we can; raising children grounded in truth, aware of a danger-filled world, but who’ve been taught resilience and courage; speaking the truth, in love, even when it sacrifices our peace, reputation or career. If the past weeks confirmed one thing, it’s that hope is not found in political leaders (or those waiting in the wings), lawyers, commissions or similar. They can be peripheral means to various ends, but more often than not, they’re making things worse, and rapidly so. As Jordan Peterson said recently “I don’t see how we could be stupider here in the West if we actually took courses in stupidity and tried as hard as we could. We seem to be doing everything we can to break everything as rapidly as possible”.
Don’t sell yourselves short on your ability to discern right from wrong, smart from stupid, and to act in ways that greatly impact your spheres of influence. We may desire freedom, but without taking on the immense responsibility it requires, we simply join the race for a version that is little more than self-centered hedonism. That responsibility may mean boldly speaking truth in the face of lies. Other times, it may require refusing to comply when compelled by an authority to act in ways harmful to those around us or which violate our conscience. Heed that conscience. Be the steadfast, calm leaders our nation so desperately needs. Greg
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
Purchase your tickets on or before Friday, Feb 17th for a 50% discount with the promo code UNITY50
After Feb 17th use promo code UNITY for a $10 discount.
Leaders in Dialogue is Co-hosted by former medical rep Lindsay Gabelhouse and former Global Vancouver newscast director Anita Krishna, this talk will cover important issues about the kids and how we can better serve and protect them. Have you heard about the Infants Act and Mature Minor Consent? Are you concerned about what’s being taught in our schools? Have you ever felt like the media only gives one side of the story or that the government is lying to us?
Guest speakers include Tanya Gaw, from Action 4 Canada, Sean Taylor, a former ER nurse (including pediatric) and military vet, and Dr Robert Johnson, a practicing dentist in BC. This talk will include a few short presentations, some lively discussions about what’s happening in our schools and public health system, plus plenty of time for audience Q and A. Special performances by Mitch Murphy (aka The Red Pill Rapper) and his awesome wife, Hailey.
“Canada-No Bargain At All-Canada’s Health Deal —The Federal Government Out Manoeuvred The Provinces — What Happened To Provincial Rights —That’s When The Rubber Hits The Road!
Walk in the park —the Feds never worked up a sweat!
Forgone conclusion!
As I keep saying—-how many ‘have not ‘Provinces are there drooling for more money? Five, for sure, and look at Canada’s California, near bankrupt Ontario, and they sure are not getting all excited about Provincial jurisdiction —they are getting $23 billion in health transfers just this year. And stumbling Newfoundland and Labrador are doing all sorts of deals with the Feds to emasculate oil and gas rights offshore which had been dully negotiated in the Province’s favour.
Just oil and gas —revenues—Provinces want —-
Health expenditures — another matter Provinces not so eager
That’ s the problem Premier Smith now has —she was alone and had no choice but to accept —-and she knew it. Saskatchewan on side now and then.
BNA Act —Section 91 (7) Exclusive Provincial jurisdiction over health
But as I keep informing anyone who will truly listen, and as Professor Savoie points out in his book ‘Democracy In Canada , The Disintegration Of Our Institutions, ‘ we have not adjusted our bargain of 1867 and are now captured by an encroaching Federal entity aided and abetted by the traditional centre—Upper and Lower Canada, Ontario and Quebec and a bunch of have not Provinces , more eager in taking the money from the Feds than get blamed by having to raise revenues and spend like they should.
And in changing the Constitution—-same thing——too many Provinces in the Federal Corner ( you need 7 Provinces , 50% of the population to change the Constitution) Alberta is cornered —taking Federal health money that’s really provincial jurisdiction, But hollering to keep all non-renewal royalties because it is provincial ——-and captured by inter provincial transmission which is Federal —Newfoundland and Labrador , its hydro power and the western Provinces, especially Alberta, their oil and gas.
And the Peoples Party of Canada speaks to this, giving more power to the Provinces through tax points—-but now you know why it does not gain the traction you would think it should. The 30 pieces of silver is easier and the blame is shared.
That’s why The Constitution Act of 1982 is so important. The Federal Government was put in its place in the September 1981 Supreme Court of Canada decision declaring federal unilateral moves to change the Constitution —-UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
Guess what ———the back doors opened wide with the Canada Health Act and other Social Transfers, an activist Court system that began legislating not interpreting——a living tree theory of the Constitution not what was written and its clear intent, and a total fabrication of how the Constitution Act 1982 came together in the first place and presto ——
A made for measure fabricated Pandemic comes along —
And as they say the rest is history —-
The Federal nature of our country is now, no bargain at all.”
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NOTE: I have said for decades the Feds have no power into exclusive Provincial jurisdiction in s. 92 of the BNA Act or Constitution Act 1982, starting with the Income Tax Act 1948. This division of powers is the fundamental basis for my Constitutional Challenge as well to the RCMP. Policing is exclusively Provincial – what does “exclusive” mean to you?
The Provinces are wimps – they rarely challenge the Feds simply b/c they want the money – Constitutional prohibitions mean nothing when they are offered finances to turn a blind eye to the Fed’s unconstitutional legislation.
As part of the new agreement between the Provinces and the Feds, the Provinces must agree with the Federal Canada Health Act, which in pith and substance, is exclusively Provincial.
The transfer comes with very few conditions, though provinces do have to abide by the principles of the Canada Health Act. That means Ottawa can, and has, clawed back funding if the provinces charge patients for health services that are supposed be funded by the public purse.
Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Pick the time that works for you:
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
————————————–
REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
————————————–
Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
In a clear response to those politicians who continue to claim that we are one of the best countries in the world to live, a recent poll shows that the majority of Canadians agree that our country is “broken”. The real question is how can it be repaired?? Answer: return to our fundamental starting point – the principle enshrined in our Coronation Oath of the Monarch.
On a most alarming issue, now the Church of England is contemplating a gender-neutral God. Will the Church next claim that Christ was a transexual or some other perversion? The perversion of our governments in only a matter of years, has been sickening, surpassed only by the number of parents and citizens who continue to do nothing to stop them.
After resolutely promising no agreement with Trudeau that would involve digital ID, both Sask. and Alta. have now signed on board with the Feds for more health care monies. Details have yet to be fully released, however it appears that they both now have lied to the people and reneged on their word.
I agree and stand firmly with @PremierScottMoe in protecting Albertans’ private health information. I will ensure that any agreements with the Federal Government do NOT include the sharing of any such personal information with the Feds or third party.
Compare that with the terms of the agreement:
To access the enhanced CHT, provinces must first commit to improving how health data is “collected, shared, used and reported to Canadians to promote greater transparency on results, and to help manage public health emergencies,” the government said in a background document supplied to reporters.
Among the metrics the federal government says it will be looking at to assess whether tangible progress comes from the bilateral funding arrangements are:
The net new family physicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners in each province and territory;
The percentage of Canadians who have access to a family health team or family doctor;
The size of the COVID-19 surgery backlog;
The median wait times for community mental health and substance abuse services; and
The percentage of Canadians who can access their health records electronically.
As a condition of this agreement, the Provinces will have to agree to develop and increase digital access. Reading between the lines, this means digital ID.
And look what Trudeau said if you refuse to be vaccinated – you can’t travel. Once digital ID is in place, you won’t be traveling without the Gov’t telling you what you can do to your body.
Over 1000 New Brunswickers report adverse effects to the COVID-19 vaccine, with over 300 considered “serious”. These are undoubtedly unreported as many people seem unable to link the vaccine to the injury or death.
New Brunswick has a population of only 812 061 in 2022, having .06% with adverse effects, or 6/10 000.
Here in B.C., our population is 5 368 266 million, with 14 199 479 vaccine doses administered. Assuming this same ratio, we would have here in BC, 8 519 adverse effects (just reported ones), and 2 555 “serious” reactions.
These are NOT insignificant numbers, nor does this show that these vaccines are safe. Is this a risk you are willing to take? Especially if it was YOUR family member – or YOU!
Edmonton and Ottawa are eerily close to implementing this complete restriction on our liberties with their 15 min cities.
A pilot project in Oxford, England, has become the poster child for the idea. Oxford introduced three low-traffic districts in 2022 and will implement another six in 2024 to blanket the city, with the goal of “targeting unnecessary journeys by cars.” The use of traffic “filters” will also begin in 2024, which involve cameras that monitor vehicles driving through roads with time restrictions and facilitate the charging of fines for violations.
Psychological warfare! Hundreds of Dr. Jordan Peterson supporters protest outside the College of Psychologists of Ontario
Earlier this month, Dr. Peterson took to Twitter to call out the Orwellian witch-hunt against him for making statements that the college considers to be politically incorrect.
Dr. Jordan Peterson is one of the most brilliant minds on the planet today. He has authored bestselling books; he is a speaker in demand the world over; and he has helped thousands of individuals – mostly young males – turn their lives around.
So why is Dr. Peterson suddenly deemed to be persona non grata by the College of Psychologists of Ontario?
Well, incredibly, Dr. Peterson is essentially being persecuted for… wrong-thought.
Earlier this month, Dr. Peterson took to Twitter to call out the Orwellian witch-hunt against him for making statements that the college considers to be politically incorrect.
Wrote Peterson: “BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre Poilievre and criticizing Justin Trudeau and his political allies.
“I am to take a course of such training (with reports documenting my ‘progress’ or face an in-person tribunal and suspension of my right to operate as a licensed clinical psychologist.”
“About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about my public statements on Twitter and Rogan over a four-year period (out of the 15 million who follow me on social media) claiming that I had ‘harmed’ people (not them) with my views.”
And so it is that Dr. Peterson’s colleagues think he must be… “reprogrammed”? What would George Orwell say if he were alive today? (Perhaps Orwell would lament that his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was meant to be a work of fiction, not an instruction manual.)
Indeed, the crux of the matter when it comes to this story is that Dr. Peterson is not being investigated by the College of Psychologists of Ontario for any alleged improper behaviour with regard to a current or former patient. Rather, the college deems his politics to be offside.
This is equal parts outrageous and egregious.
And on Wednesday, a few hundred Peterson supporters held a peaceful rally outside the Toronto headquarters of the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
Some notable speakers included People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier and Church of God pastor Henry Hildebrandt, both of whom have had to deal with censorship issues during the past few years.
The statements by attendees were consistent: they support freedom of speech; they despise censorship and compelled speech; and they believe the tall forehead types who comprise the CPO are, well, out of their collective minds.
And if the brainiacs at the college think Dr. Peterson is going to bend the knee to the woke mob, they are sadly deluded.
Indeed, Dr. Peterson first came to prominence several years ago when he was teaching at the University of Toronto. That’s when he first took a stand against compelled speech – especially when it came to referring to the various spirit unicorns on campus with phony baloney pronouns such as “zee/zir”, “xe/xem”, etc., etc.
He wasn’t silenced then; he won’t be silenced now.
And by the way, who exactly looks upon Jordon Peterson as being “controversial” in the first place merely for espousing… common sense?
Is it the woke mob on campus? The thugs who comprise Antifa? Those who suffer from mental illness and/or the radical transgender community?
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said on Tuesday that may lose his license unless he submits to mandatory “social-media communication retraining” by the College of Psychologists of Ontario, his home province’s licensing authority.
“I face public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, disciplinary hearing and potential loss of my clinical licensing for agreeing with [Conservative MP] Pierre Poilievre and criticizing our standing [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau,” Peterson said on Twitter.
According to Peterson, “about a dozen people from all over the world” submitted complaints to the CPO, alleging his views and comments “harmed people.” None of them were actual clients of his, but lied about it so their complaints would be accepted, he added.
“If I comply, the terms of my re-education and my punishment will be announced publicly,” he said.
“Canadians: your physicians, lawyers, psychologists and other professionals are now so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth. This means that your care and legal counsel has been rendered dangerously unreliable,” Peterson tweeted.
Peterson was reinstated on Twitter in November, after Elon Musk bought the company and reversed many prior bans that he thought unjust. He had been locked out of his account in July 2022, for refusing to use a transgender actor’s new name and pronouns.
On December 27, Peterson tweeted that Trudeau “appears to me to be perpetually 14 yrs old,” referring to the concept of “psychological age” in his field of expertise.
The psychologist first gained national and international attention in 2016, when he was subjected to similar “re-education” pressure over his criticism of a bill that declared “gender identity and expression” to be protected categories. More recently, he has denounced the “totalitarian” lockdowns and vaccine mandates embraced by many countries – including Canada – in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Russia Today, January 3, 2023)
