Juno News - January 05, 2023


What is happening in Canada?


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The Ministry of Truth is coming down hard on Canada's loudest dissenting voice for a few too many instances of publicly voicing wrongspeak. For not adhering to the narrative, to the doctrine of the political and media elite in this country, you not only face irreversible and irrecoverable damage, you also face permanent suspension of your license to practice psychology in Canada.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Well, something in Canada is seriously
00:00:12.400 broken if that hasn't become painfully obvious to you yet. Just as it was in 2020, 2021, 2022,
00:00:19.200 and now in 2023, Canada continues the long and painful slide further and further away from
00:00:25.040 freedom. On Tuesday, Jordan Peterson announced on Twitter that the Ontario College of Psychologists,
00:00:31.360 a group of people who think quite highly of themselves and definitely think they're smarter
00:00:34.960 than you, are forcing Peterson to undergo, quote, mandatory social media communications retraining
00:00:47.440 for the crime of, wait for it, daring to retweet the leader of Canada's official opposition
00:00:53.200 and criticizing dear leader, the untouchable Justin Trudeau. Stick around for the first
00:00:58.080 Ratio of the Week award for 2023, drop a like in the video, help us out by subscribing to the
00:01:02.480 TrueNorth YouTube channel, and the comment question for the episode is this, what is the one issue you
00:01:07.360 want more Canadians to pay attention to in 2023? Let me know in the comments and let's get into it.
00:01:12.320 The Ministry of Truth is coming down hard on Canada's loudest dissenting voice for
00:01:17.040 a few too many instances of publicly voicing wrongspeak. Take a look at what Jordan Peterson
00:01:22.080 wrote on Tuesday and asked yourself, does this sound like Canada or more like Stalin's Soviet
00:01:26.880 Union and Mao's China? The Ontario College of Psychologists has demanded that I submit myself
00:01:32.080 to mandatory social media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes,
00:01:38.720 retweeting Pierre Polyev and criticizing Justin Trudeau and his political allies.
00:01:44.160 I have been accused of harming people, although none of the complainants involved in the current action
00:01:48.480 were clients of mine, past or present, or were even acquainted with any of my clients.
00:01:53.920 About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about my public statements
00:01:58.400 on Twitter and on Joe Rogan's podcast over a four-year period, claiming that I had, quote,
00:02:03.680 harmed people, not them, with my views. We are now in a situation in Canada, under Justin Trudeau,
00:02:10.720 where practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened
00:02:15.280 in a very serious manner for agreeing with the official opposition and criticizing major government
00:02:20.880 figures. Canadians, your physicians, lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals are now
00:02:26.720 so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth. This means that
00:02:31.520 your care and legal counsel has been rendered dangerously unreliable. I mean, this is completely
00:02:37.040 and utterly insane. There's no other way to describe it. For retweeting Pierre Polyev, the leader of
00:02:41.680 Canada's opposition and criticizing Justin Trudeau, Jordan Peterson now faces the prospect of having
00:02:46.960 his license to practice psychology in Ontario stripped. But that's actually not really the
00:02:52.240 point here. Jordan Peterson doesn't practice psychology anymore. Having his license stripped
00:02:56.720 from him won't actually impact him financially and it won't impact his family, thankfully.
00:03:01.280 The point in all of this is for professional colleges stacked with government-depointed board members
00:03:06.240 to send a very loud and very clear message, not to Jordan Peterson, but to you and to me.
00:03:12.240 This is an all-out attack on freedom of speech in this country. And let me explain why.
00:03:16.640 These professional colleges, like the College of Psychology and the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
00:03:21.440 all of which have disciplinary boards stacked with government-appointed board members,
00:03:25.920 have been intimidating their members into complete silence and obedience for some time now. Perhaps most
00:03:30.960 notably, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons took four of their own doctors to court
00:03:36.480 for giving out exemptions to the shot. And one of their doctors was censured by the College for daring
00:03:42.560 to question the narrative on Twitter. The College eventually dropped their censure, but not before
00:03:48.320 the doctor's reputation was permanently damaged by the College's actions. Given what we know about what
00:03:53.600 went on with the Ontario College of Physicians and now what we're seeing from the Ontario College of
00:03:58.800 Psychologists, I think it's pretty safe to say that this is taking place across all regulated professions
00:04:04.720 and across the country. For not adhering to the narrative, to the message, to the doctrine of
00:04:09.680 the political and media elite in this country, you not only face irreversible and irrecoverable
00:04:15.200 reputational damage, you also face public humiliation in front of your colleagues and the permanent
00:04:20.800 suspension of your license to practice the work that you likely spent tens of thousands of dollars
00:04:25.760 in tuition fees for and thousands of hours studying to master. These are seriously the times we're
00:04:30.960 living in now. This is not happening in Xi Jinping's China. This is not happening in some far away
00:04:35.840 ludicrous African dictatorship. This is happening in Canada. Now all of this is just the latest attempt 1.00
00:04:42.080 in a long and storied saga of the political and media elite in this country trying to discredit
00:04:47.440 Peterson in any way they can. The legacy media in Canada have written hundreds of hit pieces against
00:04:52.560 Peterson trying to label him as a racist, a misogynist, a transphobe, or a climate denier.
00:04:57.440 Now his own professional college is coming after him for being too outspoken on Twitter. This seems
00:05:01.600 like an awful lot for a guy whose main message to Canadians is do better, don't lie, clean up your 0.79
00:05:07.280 rooms, and stand up straight with your shoulders back. On Wednesday, Peterson took to Twitter again
00:05:11.840 to publish the Orwellian list of demands that the Ontario College of Psychologists sent him. Look at
00:05:17.200 some of these. It's insane. It's a classic Maoist-style struggle session straight out of
00:05:22.320 Communist China's Cultural Revolution. Take a look at this. It starts off with an acknowledgement, 0.65
00:05:27.680 an acknowledgement that I have lacked professionalism in public statements made on social media and during
00:05:33.760 a January 25, 2022 podcast appearance. I undertake to work with either Dr. Erica Abner or Gail Siskind to
00:05:42.560 review, reflect on, and ameliorate my professionalism in public statements. Oh my god. Unbelievable.
00:05:49.920 The coach will provide the registrar with reports at the midpoint and end with respect to this
00:05:54.960 undertaking and will provide me with a copy of the reports at the same time as they are provided to
00:06:00.080 the registrar. It continues. If the coach provides any unfavorable information about my practice,
00:06:05.760 the registrar may proceed to investigate new concerns arising in accordance with the Health
00:06:10.320 Professions Procedural Code. I am fully responsible for any and all costs associated
00:06:15.280 with satisfaction of the terms of this acknowledgement. So not only is Peterson
00:06:18.720 forced to undergo a Maoist-Communist-style struggle session, he has to pay for it too.
00:06:23.520 Now Peterson is of course challenging all of this. He's not complying with the quote
00:06:27.440 undertaking and he's also taking the Ontario College of Psychologists to court over all of this.
00:06:33.120 Peterson also penned an op-ed in the National Post which kind of covers all of this stuff. He wrote this,
00:06:38.640 for criticizing our Prime Minister and his cronies and peers, for retweeting Pierre
00:06:42.640 Pauli of the Leader of the Official Opposition in Canada, and for holding and for daring to express
00:06:47.440 reprehensible political views. I have now been convicted by the College of Psychologists
00:06:52.080 of quote harming people in some manner serious enough to justify my forced re-education.
00:06:57.760 In that same op-ed, Peterson lays out some considerations for Canadians to think about
00:07:01.920 when dealing with this. Because let's be honest, this is just yet another example of the all-out
00:07:06.240 war on freedom of speech in this country. Whether it's the attacks on online freedom of speech and
00:07:11.520 censorship, whether it's having your bank account frozen for protesting the government,
00:07:15.520 or whether it's about having your license to practice the job you love, stripped away because
00:07:20.880 you dared to speak out against Dear Leader on social media. Peterson writes this,
00:07:24.880 Why should Canadians who read this care? Perhaps those reading in this country might ask themselves
00:07:29.600 the following questions. And in all seriousness, painful as it might be to do so, requiring as it
00:07:35.120 does the almost unbelievable admission that something has gone dreadfully wrong in our lovely country.
00:07:40.560 What makes you think that something similar won't happen to you or to someone you love? What makes you
00:07:44.880 think you are going to continue to be able to communicate honestly with your physicians,
00:07:49.120 lawyers, or psychologists? What are your children going to be taught when all their teachers are so
00:07:54.560 afraid of the woke mob that they've swallowed all the ideological lies that are now required
00:07:59.680 of pedagogues, regardless if they believe what they are saying? Where are we going to be if we allow
00:08:04.720 criticism of public figures charged with the privilege of our governance to be grounds for the
00:08:09.040 demolition of not only the critics' reputation, but their very livelihood? How far are we willing to go
00:08:14.640 down this road without forthright resistance? Like I said before, this is not about Jordan Peterson
00:08:20.320 losing his license or keeping his license. Either way, he'll be just fine. What this is really about
00:08:24.960 is a psychologist in Thunder Bay who's just getting by, who hates the Prime Minister, but knows he can't
00:08:30.480 speak out about it publicly because he can't afford to lose his livelihood. This is about the teacher in
00:08:34.880 Ottawa who doesn't want to be peddling critical race theory. She doesn't want to be pushing gender 1.00
00:08:39.280 ideology, but she can't afford to speak out about it because she can't afford to lose her livelihood. 1.00
00:08:44.080 The message coming from these professional colleges is loud and clear. Speak out and you'll lose your
00:08:48.560 livelihood. Fall in line, accept the dominant narrative, and keep your mouth shut, you'll be
00:08:52.400 just fine. Is that really the Canada we want to live in? Here we go, ratio of the week time. The first
00:08:57.040 winner of 2023 is going to the Ontario College of Psychologists. They just totally deserved it this
00:09:02.640 week. I think they're getting the whole treatment, the whole package. But as you could have guessed,
00:09:06.560 a lot of Jordan Peterson's followers have come on to the Ontario College of Psychologists' very small
00:09:12.240 Twitter page and just flooded the replies to their latest tweet. It's hilarious really. At the time
00:09:18.400 of this recording, this tweet from December 22 has 18 likes and 1,597 replies. So 1,600 replies to 18 likes.
00:09:31.680 A serious ratio to kick us off for the year. Let's take a look at some of these hilarious comments.
00:09:35.840 Congratulations on your highest amount of social media engagement ever today. At CP Ontario,
00:09:41.120 it was a unique strategy, but it's working. Social media communication retraining with the
00:09:46.400 picture from a clockwork orange. Jordan Peterson has 3.6 million followers and you have 282. I think
00:09:53.520 you should take a course on social media. Just amazing. That one got over 2,000 likes. That's going
00:09:59.040 to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll catch you tomorrow on
00:10:02.560 Fake News Friday. My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratio.