PJ The Belt - February 13, 2026


Alberta Just PUT AN END To ＂Diversity Laws＂

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Jordan Peterson Bill Flanagan Danielle Smith Mickey Amory Elliot Page
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8 minutes

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1,356

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The Alberta government just dropped a hammer on woke and diversity hiring policies. Multiple institutions, including government, universities and others are abandoning that liberal practice. The province is now supporting those professionals who don t want to be forced to take part in that leftist ideology. And this is yet another example of Alberta taking matters into its own hands and drawing a clear line between the way Canada sees the world and Albertans' way of life.

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00:00:00.000 The Alberta government just dropped a hammer on woke and DEI hiring policies.
00:00:07.100 Multiple institutions, including government, universities and others, are abandoning that liberal practice.
00:00:13.640 The province is now supporting those professionals who don't want to be forced to take part in that leftist ideology.
00:00:21.240 And this is yet another example of Alberta taking matters into its own hands and drawing a clear line between the way Canada sees the world and Albertans' way of life.
00:00:33.020 And you can already hear Ottawa and the establishment melting down over this.
00:00:37.980 I'm going to show you exactly how the government of Alberta is sticking it to the federal liberals when it comes to merit-based hiring.
00:00:45.180 Let's get into it.
00:00:46.280 So this is the premier of Alberta a couple of months back revealing a law that she calls the Peterson Law based on Jordan Peterson,
00:00:53.920 who happens to be from Alberta and was discriminated and threatened with the loss of his psychology license just for expressing his opinion.
00:01:03.100 Let's have a listen.
00:01:04.160 Regulators begin disciplining people for simply speaking their mind on their own time.
00:01:08.680 That's overreach.
00:01:09.880 And at its worst, it becomes an outright threat to free expression.
00:01:13.620 Alberta's latest legislation taking aim at how professional bodies limit free speech.
00:01:19.100 It's proposed Regulated Professionals Neutrality Act limiting groups like Alberta's College of Physicians and Surgeons or the Law Society of Alberta from disciplining members for expressing opinions while not on the clock.
00:01:30.820 There are some exceptions.
00:01:32.160 For example, the Commons cannot threaten violence or misuse the professional's position with an intent to harm.
00:01:37.940 Sometimes it's hazy where the workplace ends and their personal life begins.
00:01:44.720 These cases are cropping up because of the ubiquity of social media where regulated professionals are chiming in on hot-button issues in the new digital public square.
00:01:54.040 Two years ago, Dr. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, podcaster, and author,
00:01:58.600 was disciplined by Ontario's College of Psychologists for a series of online comments, including statements about transgender actor Elliot Page.
00:02:07.580 Well, it wasn't really about incorrect information.
00:02:10.580 In fact, it was more about the tone which he made his statements, which they viewed as unprofessional.
00:02:17.220 And I believe they used the words dishonorable and degrading as well.
00:02:20.920 So it wasn't what he said is how he said it.
00:02:24.440 That's the state of Canada's professional bodies.
00:02:27.140 Well, it's not what he said.
00:02:29.080 It's how he said it.
00:02:30.280 It's the tone. 1.00
00:02:31.700 What a damn joke. 0.99
00:02:33.120 ...program in order to keep his license. 0.99
00:02:35.540 He eventually agreed after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.
00:02:39.780 Fear of similar discipline, the premier believes, has kept medical professionals from speaking out in support of a recent Alberta law limiting access to transgender medical care.
00:02:48.600 We spoke to many professionals who were afraid to put their names in the public realm,
00:02:53.580 not only due to the threat of public cancellation, but mainly due to fear of losing their professional status or their livelihood.
00:03:01.400 So this is one of those moments where I definitely give credit where due and the premier of Alberta putting out that law,
00:03:07.520 the Jordan Peterson law, to allow professionals to not be blackmailed or threatened by their associations that are now more political than anything.
00:03:16.920 They're basically liberal activists.
00:03:19.680 Her putting that protection out there allows professionals to give honest opinions without fear of repercussions from those associations.
00:03:29.100 Right.
00:03:29.200 So she put out a tweet a couple of months back in regards to this.
00:03:32.320 Watching Jordan Peterson and other Canadian professionals being targeted by their professional associations for speaking their minds made it clear to me that Alberta has to act.
00:03:43.800 That's why we are changing the law to ensure no one in Alberta will ever be punished by their professional body for standing up and sharing their views.
00:03:53.540 In this province, we protect the voices that challenge, question, and inspire.
00:03:57.940 Here's an article from the National Post talking about the stand that Alberta is taking when it comes to DEI practices here in Canada.
00:04:06.860 Alberta protects professionals from witch hunts and forced diversity training.
00:04:12.280 Regulators have been abusing their power for political ends.
00:04:17.060 The article goes,
00:04:18.080 The tricky thing about boundary pushing is that if you unwisely take it too far, it might snap back in your face.
00:04:25.980 That's what the regulators of lawyers, doctors, psychologists, and every other job gatekeep by professional bodies are now facing in Alberta after their sister entities across the country started dabbling in political policing.
00:04:40.680 On Thursday, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and Justice Minister Mickey Amory announced Bill 13, the Regulated Profession Neutrality Act, which would prohibit regulators from mandating diversity training, among other forms of political conditioning, while also protecting most off-duty speech.
00:05:02.080 It's unbelievable that Alberta had to create a law to protect free speech.
00:05:07.660 That's just the state of Canada today.
00:05:10.680 Like, you have to get a province, subnational government, like Alberta, reinforcing your ability to say what you actually believe, what your opinion is, expressing your opinion when you're off work.
00:05:25.200 Unbelievable.
00:05:26.200 Unbelievable.
00:05:27.240 But the government of Alberta has taken this fight even further with multiple institutions now ending the DEI and race-based hiring practices that most of Canada continues to implement.
00:05:40.880 This is an article which came out yesterday from the National Post titled, University of Alberta to become first to abandon race-centric hiring.
00:05:51.160 Schools set to return to prior system of hiring based on qualifications.
00:05:56.200 So ridiculous how that's even a thing, that we change the policy going from merit-based, which is how we should have always been, to race-based. 0.56
00:06:06.360 Really ridiculous. 0.97
00:06:07.360 Really ridiculous. 0.59
00:06:08.200 Article goes, the University of Alberta is set to become the first major Canadian university to abandon race-centric hiring in a move that could expose it to federal litigation.
00:06:19.440 Oh, you know the federal government is going to want to fight this.
00:06:22.780 You better believe they're going to want to fight this.
00:06:25.200 The school's current recruitment policy, first adopted in 2011, prioritizes the hiring of persons historically underrepresented at the university, end quote, a category that includes women, disabled people, indigenous people, and, quote, members of visible minority groups, end quote.
00:06:45.620 But under a draft revision, currently headed to the school's board of governors, these clauses will be discarded, and the school will go back to hiring based solely on qualifications, as it should be, as it should be.
00:07:01.720 They revealed would represent the first major policy change at the University of Alberta since the school first announced last year that it was abandoning its adherence to the principle of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
00:07:14.240 That's DEI, it's just Canada has to be fancy and change it.
00:07:19.060 They go EDI, I guess, up here.
00:07:22.580 For some, the language of DEI has become polarizing, focusing more on what divides us rather than our shared humanity. 0.99
00:07:31.340 No shit. 1.00
00:07:32.940 No freaking shit. 1.00
00:07:34.220 Every time you have to talk about someone's skin color, someone's gender, someone's past, as opposed to their qualifications and their merit, you're literally dividing people. 1.00
00:07:47.460 You're doing exactly that, which you say you're against.
00:07:50.120 How about you hire people based on the effort they put in to be qualified for the position and forget all about their skin color, their background, their ancestry, who they choose to sleep with.
00:08:05.660 None of that has anything to do with the job.
00:08:08.080 Some perceive an ideological bias at odds with merit.
00:08:11.960 Bill Flanagan, president of the University of Alberta, explained in a January 2025 op-ed for the Edmonton Journal.
00:08:19.700 It really is such a joke that we ever move from hiring people based on how qualified they are for the actual job and instead started employing them based on a bunch of other BS like their skin color and who they choose to sleep with.
00:08:34.160 I'm glad Alberta is leading the charge in returning to common sense because, boy, does Canada ever need some common sense?
00:08:42.900 Well, thank you for watching.
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