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