Psychologist Jordan Peterson has left Canada over his distaste with the Liberal government, its Online Harms Act and his battle with the College of Psychologists.
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Peterson, 62, who is a retired University of Toronto psychology professor, has been involved in a very public battle with a regulatory body’s order to send him “to re-education camp” or potentially lose his licence to practise.
The 12 Rules For Life author made the announcement that he’s moved to the U.S. during a recent sit down with his daughter Mikhaila Peterson on her podcast.
“The issue with the College of Psychologists is very annoying, to say the least, and the new legislation that the Liberals are attempting to push through, Bill C-63, I’ll be living in a totalitarian hellhole if it passes,” Peterson said. “And it could well pass.”
Justin Trudeau’s proposed Online Harms Act, Bill C-63, calls for life sentences for hate crimes or promoting genocide.
The bill increases prison terms for other offences and proposes fines of up to $25 million on companies that violate the act.
Peterson then cited the Liberals’ economic policies as another reason he’s fled the country.
”The tax situation is out of hand,” Peterson continued. “The government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief. And it’s become uncomfortable for me in my neighbourhood in Toronto.”
Peterson also predicted that when Trudeau is ousted as prime minister by voters in the next federal election that “we’re going to find out in Canada that things are a lot worse than we thought.”
”Trudeau is so spectacularly incompetent that there’s endless discoveries of corruption and idiocy to be unveiled. And I’m afraid for Pierre Poilievre that he’s going to be left with a terrible mess and will immediately be blamed by the remnants of the legacy media, which he’ll also help dispense with because I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is on the chopping block, which it richly deserves. (The CBC gets a) $1.4-billion subsidy a year (and) $600 million in government advertising.
“Go to the CBC YouTube channel and look at the last 50 things they posted. They all have under 100 views each, which means that the only people who watch them are the people who made them,” he said in a clip shared by Mikhaila to TikTok.
In an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade earlier this month, Peterson lashed out at Trudeau over his government’s immigration policy that saw immigration levels spike to record numbers during his leadership.
”Everything that’s gone wrong on the immigration front in Canada is 100% attributable to Justin Trudeau and his pack of demented minions,” Peterson said.
”It’s gone so badly in Canada that he has no choice but to reverse course, and then to see him flailing around to find someone to blame is exactly as pathetic as you’d expect from someone like him.”
Trudeau recently announced that he will be reducing the number of immigrants being allowed into Canada after a backlash against the influx of temporary foreign workers and international students.
Recent polls have raised questions about their impact on property prices, strains on government services and their ability to integrate into Canadian society.
”In tumultuous times as we emerged from the pandemic, between addressing labour needs and maintaining population growth, we didn’t get the balance right,” Trudeau, who is under pressure to resign, acknowledged in October. “Immigration is essential for Canada’s future, but it must be controlled and it must be sustainable.”
But Peterson said Trudeau’s policies — which have seen the country’s population explode to 41 million people, up from 37.5 million in 2019 — “demolished the Canadian immigration system and threw the borders wide open, upending decades of effective immigration policy in Canada.”
In addressing the immigration concerns of Canadians in October, Trudeau blamed “bad actors like fake colleges and big chain corporations have been exploiting our immigration system for their own interests.”
In his chat with Fox News, though, Peterson said the fault was squarely on Trudeau for causing a “catastrophic crisis in the country.”
”Now you can see that he was blaming that on educational institutions and bad corporate actors, and that’s exactly typical of him and his 14-year-old mentality,” he said.