Daily Wire personality, podcaster, and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson shocked Twitter with a major claim he dropped on Twitter on Tuesday, January 3rd. According to Dr. Peterson, he’s now at risk of losing his license to practice clinical psychology because he has been highly critical of Prime Minister Trudeau and retweeted a dissident Canadian politician, Pierre Poilievre.
Announcing that on Twitter, Peterson blew up on those tyrants trying to strip his livelihood from him, saying:
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting
@PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
Continuing, he detailed some of the complaints he’s facing that means he might lose his license and also described what procedures the powers that be want to humiliate him by forcing him to go through, saying:
I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mone, past or present, or en were even acquainted with any of my clients.
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.
He then noted the utter absurdity of who they’re pulling out of the woodwork to bring complaints against him and try to take his license, saying:
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.
He did not indicate if or how he would fight the charges, leaving it up in the air whether he’ll just move to the US and tell his home country to go to hell, stick it out in Canada and try to remain a psychologist, or stay in Canada and focus on his political and social commentary. Fortunately for him, he’s a man of means and so is also a man with options.
Despite leaving that aspect of the situation up in the air, Peterson wasn’t done. He then continued his Twitter rant, exposing how wokeness is ruining important career fields in Canada and putting Canadians at risk. In his words:
In its wisdom @CPOntario decided to pursue these complaints even though they could have dismissed them@as vexatious
I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mine, past or present, or were even acquainted with any of my clients).
And even though many of them falsely claimed that they were or had been clients of mine and were allowed by @CPOntario to have their complaints investigated despite this falsehood
We are now in a situation in Canada under @JustinTrudeau where practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticizing major government figures.
If I comply the terms of my re-education and my punishment will be announced publicly. I have already had the second most serious category of punishment levied against me and have been deemed at high risk to “re-offend.”
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.
Ask Queen’s U law@professor @PardyBruce if he concurs on the legal front.
To reiterate: I face public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, disciplinary hearing and potential loss of my clinical licensing for agreeing with @PierrePoilievre and criticizing our standing PM @JustinTrudeau
I am willing (if @CPOntario concurs, which they won’t) to make absolutely every word of all this fully public so that everyone can decide for themselves what is actually happening
And to let the chips fall where they will in consequence