{"id":9350,"date":"2024-01-20T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T04:28:46","slug":"a-grim-warning-from-jordan-peterson-about-the-death-of-free-speech-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9350","title":{"rendered":"A Grim Warning from Jordan Peterson About the Death of Free Speech in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Woke minions will rue the day<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>National Post<\/li><li>18 Jan 2024<\/li><li>JORDAN PETERSON<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t.prcdn.co\/img?regionKey=rZgZfj19AuBeO0NfiRzkRw%3d%3d\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>\u201cI believe that time has been kind to my decisions: the reality of the idiocy that I pointed to then, whose reality was then denied by most, has become something increasingly apparent to an increasing majority of people in the interim,\u201d Jordan Peterson writes.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2022, the administrative board that regulates the conduct of psychologists (and much more than that, it turns out) decided that my political views were a disgrace to my profession, that of clinical psychologist. I was therefore sentenced by that board, the Ontario College of Psychologists, to a bout of mandatory re-education, of indeterminate duration, at my expense, with my learning not evaluated by any standard method but subject to the opinion of those charged with, profiting by and exploiting my forced studentship. I took those decision-makers forthwith to court, and lost. The decision of the Ontario College of Psychologists was upheld. I then appealed, to a higher court. On January 16, 2024, that appeal was rejected. There were no reasons provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that my legal options have been exhausted. Thus, I face two choices. I can comply, when the College goes ahead with its determination to require my re-education, dutifully attend whatever bloody classes their Dei-enthusiast \u201csocial media experts\u201d (whatever those are) determine to inflict upon, confess the sins of my classic liberal\/conservative or even Judeo-christian political, philosophical and theological commitments, repent and silence myself \u2014 or even become a standard-bearer for the faux-compassionate woke cause, at least publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I WOULD SAY EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS AGAIN. \u2014 JORDAN PETERSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively, I can tell my would-be masters to go directly to the hell they are so rapidly gathering around themselves and everyone else, lose my right to practise or even to describe myself as a psychologist, and suffer the consequences on the reputation front:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCanadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson, disgrace to his profession, forfeits his formal licence, in consequence of his crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what exactly were those crimes? \u2014 because there\u2019s the rub or, at least, one of them. This is where the reader should pay careful attention, Canadian or otherwise, because this is what lies ahead in the West, given the course our leaders and their still-blind and deaf followers are charting. It should be hard for anyone considering this situation to believe that I am playing straight with the facts, if they have any of their own opinions or values whatsoever \u2014 because if what I have done and said constitutes the equivalent of a professional crime, you can be sure that your own head is full of like transgressions, regardless of your political stance, and your own tongue therefore likely to spill the beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I criticized three Canadian political leaders: a councilwoman in Canada\u2019s capital, Ottawa, for what I regarded and still regard as her disgraceful behaviour during the Canadian Trucker Convoy; Justin Trudeau\u2019s former principal secretary, Gerald Butts, a man who resigned from one of the highest positions within the office of the former amidst a scandal that had enveloped the Teflon-coated Liberal administration; and the woke poster boy and shining narcissist himself, Canada\u2019s Prime Minister, a man who has done more to destroy my country than anyone else, in reality and reputation, nationally and internationally (and that includes his father, who was no shirker in that regard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pointed out the shortcomings of the idiot costly self-aggrandizing virtue-signalling demoralizing lie of the power-mad climate apocalypse-mongers \u2014 that on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, the entire three-plus-hour transcript of which (!) was submitted to my College as evidence of my disgraceful conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I voiced my objections to the politically-correct insistence that morbid obesity be regarded as the equivalent to the highest standards of athletic beauty, and I took a certain Hollywood actress or actor to task because that same person (oh tortuous grammatical niceties) used its platform to parade the advantages of double mastectomies when performed on the bodies of perfectly healthy young women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I regret none of these actions. I would say exactly the same things again. Furthermore, I believe that time has been kind to my decisions: the reality of the idiocy that I pointed to then, whose reality was then denied by most, has become something increasingly apparent to an increasing majority of people in the interim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should point out, too, that these crimes were reported on the publicly accessible Ontario College of Psychologists website informer page not by anyone who had ever been a beneficiary of my professional services, or any people that knew them, or any of the people directly criticized, or by anyone who knew them, or even (in the main) by citizens of Ontario, my home province, or Canada. They were instead brought to the attention of the \u201cauthorities\u201d by activists in other countries, many of whom also lied in writing, claiming that they were in fact clients of mine. About a dozen of such people reported me \u2014 this in contrast, by the way, to the millions or now even tens of millions of people who have found the work I have done and the stances I have taken of clear psychological benefit, and who have said so, buying my books, watching my lectures and even directly informing the College of their favourable judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does this all mean for me? Frankly, very little, practically speaking. I have options, in my fortunate and privileged position. I am no longer financially dependent on my practice, which I had to fold up in 2017, in the wake of the first scandals that emerged around me. I am independently wealthy. I am also not dependent even on my formal status as a psychologist. This makes me very unlike my colleagues and fellow professionals, for whom a threat to their licence is an intolerable threat to livelihood, reputation and family stability, financial and otherwise. I could even move to the U.S., say \u2014 to one of the still-free states \u2014 and join my daughter, who has done so for equally political reasons, and as an increasing number of Canadians have determined to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By far the easiest thing for me to do personally, therefore, is to say to the College \u201cdo your worst, you petty tyrants,\u201d and let the cards fall where they will. I could even report, in detail, publicly (very publicly) on the re-education process, as I most certainly will do, if I decide to go that route. I could take the inevitable reputational hit mentioned previously, and continue going about my happy and profitable business. I have positioned myself very carefully, knowing all this was coming, accepting its inevitability, so that I wasn\u2019t even particularly upset when the news came down. My personal security and desires, however, are not the point, and they haven\u2019t been, right from the beginning. Here\u2019s the point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadians, mark my words: Your much-vaunted Charter of Rights isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on, as one of its last remaining signatories has been continually striving to indicate. Your right to free speech is essentially non-existent, as evidenced by the court decisions we are now considering. You have almost no real rights to property. Your rights to mobility can be taken away without consequence at any moment, as they were very recently. You can all-too-easily become the indentured servant of anyone you dare to hire. Your tax load is going to continue to increase, and rapidly. Your economy is predicted to be the worst performing of any developing country for the next three decades \u2014 and that failure will be trumpeted, positively, as the \u201cdegrowth\u201d necessary to save the planet (thus so conveniently providing those who, like Trudeau, have no interest in monetary policy to parade their ignorance and Machiavellian idiocy as a positive virtue: \u201cI\u2019m saving the planet\u201d is a get-out-of-jail-free card for any and all crimes and justification for a grab for power the likes of which we have never seen. The failure of my appeal means that your professionals \u2014 engineers, physicians, lawyers and teachers, among others \u2014 are now required by administrative fiat to conceal what they really think and believe (which is precisely the truth you most truly need from them) lest they run afoul of the administrative minions who have now been granted full sway over their tongues and pens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court has already determined this: hence the failure of my appeal. Regulatory boards in Canada are not required to apply the law correctly, as law professor Dr. Bruce Pardy recently pointed out. Furthermore, they can infringe charter rights \u2014 and those are your most fundamental rights \u2014 if they do so \u201cproportionately.\u201d And what does \u201cproportionately\u201d mean, practically speaking? It means any way they choose, unless you have the courage, time and resources to object. Fighting these pathetic demons has already cost me weeks of work and close to a million dollars. Are you, fellow Canadian professionals, feeling up to that task? I thought not \u2014 and have seen very little evidence of courage or ability from you on that front. So we can just imagine where that will leave the typical Canadian, who dares to speak his or her mind. Finally, and furthermore: the infringement on your rights \u2014 all your rights \u2014 can and will be justified by the courts if the action that does so promotes \u201ccharter values\u201d guaranteed and promoted nowhere in the fundamental legal structure that makes up Canada \u2014 and those have become precisely the diversity, equity, inclusivity, group-rights conceptualization of humanity and vengeful quasi-marxist but worse victim-victimizer narrative that all goes to make up the progressive ideals of the carnivorous sheep who now rule this sad and blind land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you listening, Canadians? If you refuse to abide by rules so radically leftist that they would have been and were in fact eschewed until recently by the outright socialist Canadian New Democratic Party, your opinions have now become outright illegal. Present them, even think about them, at your peril. And if you think I\u2019m exaggerating, or beating my own drum, for reasons of my own, ask yourself this: what in the world is in it for me, in so doing? I could at any moment and so easily end my association with my increasingly mad profession, as I have the universities who so recently showed their disgrace in Washington, D.C. (I\u2019m talking about you, presidents of MIT, Harvard and Upenn), and go about my perfectly functional life, without the burden of scrapping with idiots \u2014 without even the necessity of facing the full reality of the political idiocy and wilful blindness that now makes up the Canadian scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think I\u2019ll fight a little longer. Bring it on, you bloody pikers: take your next steps, bureaucrats: write me, and tell me how exactly we are to conduct my re-education. I\u2019ll play along, find out exactly what you will do, now that you\u2019ve been emboldened to do whatever it is that the darkest resentful demons lurking in your evil little low-level administrative hearts most truly desire, even to your own detriment. I\u2019ll see how burdensome playing your pathetic game becomes, and I will publicize every single bit of it. And, if I get tired of it, which seems highly likely, I\u2019ll hand over the bloody licence I am increasingly embarrassed in any case to possess and let you continue journeying oh-so-morally to the dismal, fearful, pessimistic, moralizing, petty, butter-won\u2019t-melt in our mouths hellish straits that you envision as the paradise best fit for your fellow citizens, yourselves and your children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have won the battle, minions of the deep state, faceless-for-now but not for long bureaucrat-authoritarians, but you haven\u2019t won the war. And here is a warning, too, as is only fair: So far I have been constrained in my response to your pushing and prodding and overlord-nagging by the requirement not to compromise my efforts on the legal side. But that\u2019s all over with, now, isn\u2019t it? So there are no holds barred, as far as I am concerned. And it may be that you have nothing better to do with your nasty narrowly-circumscribed micromanaging bodies and souls than to cause me trouble. But we\u2019re going to perform that dance on the international stage, with all that light shining on your machinations, and you may well come to rue the day you attempted to take possession of my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke minions will rue the day National Post 18 Jan 2024 JORDAN PETERSON In November 2022, the administrative board that regulates the conduct of psychologists (and much more than that, it turns out) decided that my political views were a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5360,5221,5361,5070,798,5029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9351,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}