PJ The Belt - May 12, 2026


Alberta Just Went Full MAGA! — Declares War on Woke Liberal Laws

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Jordan Peterson Bill Flanagan Danielle Smith Mickey Amory Elliot Page
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In Alberta, we are also putting an end to the era of wokeism. We passed a bill that protects professionals from witch-hunts and forced diversity training. Alberta is now supporting those professionals who don t want to be forced to take part in a 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 in alberta we are also putting an end to the era of wokeism we passed
00:00:07.520 yeah the alberta government just dropped a hammer on woke and dei hiring policies multiple
00:00:15.440 institutions including government universities and others are abandoning that liberal practice
00:00:21.520 the province is now supporting those professionals who don't want to be forced to take part in that
00:00:26.960 leftist ideology. And this is yet another example of Alberta taking matters into its own hands
00:00:32.980 and drawing a clear line between the way Canada sees the world and Albertans way of life. And
00:00:39.260 you can already hear Ottawa and the establishment melting down over this. I'm going to show you
00:00:44.120 exactly how the government of Alberta sticking it to the federal liberals when it comes to merit
00:00:49.220 based hiring. Let's get into it. What has a decade of woke left wing anti development policies done
00:00:55.840 to our country. Soft on crime bail laws have let dangerous criminals and repeat offenders back onto
00:01:01.760 our streets instead of keeping them behind bars where they belong. Their so-called failed safe
00:01:07.800 supply experiment has only worsened the addiction crisis and exposed families and their kids to
00:01:13.140 discarded needles and addicts shooting up in the parks. Their out-of-control immigration policies
00:01:18.200 have overwhelmed our nation's housing supply, strained our social services, and created a 1.00
00:01:23.320 national youth unemployment crisis and their anti-resource keep it in the ground eco-extremism
00:01:29.400 has left us less able to secure to provide a secure supply of energy to our friends and allies
00:01:36.040 around the world with safe secure and responsibly produced energy products so this is the premier
00:01:40.840 of alberta a couple of months back revealing a law that she calls the peterson law uh based on
00:01:46.280 jordan peterson who happens to be from alberta and was discriminated and threatened with the
00:01:51.320 the loss of his psychology license just for expressing his opinion.
00:01:55.520 Let's have a listen.
00:01:56.500 Regulators begin disciplining people for simply speaking their mind on their own time.
00:02:00.680 That's overreach.
00:02:01.760 And at its worst, it becomes an outright threat to free expression.
00:02:05.500 Alberta's latest legislation taking aim at how professional bodies limit free speech.
00:02:09.880 It's proposed Regulated Professionals Neutrality Act limiting groups like Alberta's College of Physicians and Surgeons
00:02:15.560 or the Law Society of Alberta from disciplining members for expressing opinions while not on the clock.
00:02:20.820 There are some exceptions. For example, the comments cannot threaten violence or misuse the professional's position with an intent to harm.
00:02:28.100 Sometimes it's hazy where the workplace ends and their personal life begins.
00:02:34.060 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.
00:02:42.560 Two years ago, Dr. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, podcaster and author, was disciplined by Ontario's College of Psychologists for a series of online comments, including statements about transgender actor Elliot Page.
00:02:55.560 It wasn't really about incorrect information. In fact, it was more about the tone which he made his statements, which they viewed as unprofessional.
00:03:04.140 And I believe they use words dishonorable and degrading as well.
00:03:07.400 So it wasn't what he said is how he said it. That's the state of Canada's professional bodies.
00:03:13.900 Well, it's not what he said. It's how he said it. It's the tone. What a damn joke.
00:03:18.880 Program in order to keep his license. He eventually agreed after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. 0.99
00:03:25.080 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.
00:03:33.200 We spoke to many professionals who were afraid to put their names in the public realm, not only due to the threat of public cancellation, but mainly due to fear of losing their professional status or their livelihood.
00:03:44.840 So this is one of those moments where I definitely give credit where due and the premier of Alberta putting out that law, the Jordan Peterson law, to allow professionals to not be blackmailed or threatened by their associations that are now more political than anything.
00:03:59.440 They're basically liberal activists. Her putting that protection out there allows professionals to give honest opinions without fear of repercussions from their from those associations.
00:04:10.440 Right. So she put out a tweet a couple of months back in regards to this.
00:04:13.700 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.
00:04:24.320 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.
00:04:33.340 In this province, we protect the voices that challenge, question and inspire.
00:04:37.420 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.
00:04:45.680 Alberta protects professionals from witch hunts and forced diversity training.
00:04:50.680 Regulators have been abusing their power for political ends.
00:04:55.120 The article goes, the tricky thing about boundary pushing is that if you unwisely take it too far, it might snap back in your face.
00:05:03.400 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.
00:05:17.000 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.
00:05:37.280 It's unbelievable that Alberta had to create a law to protect free speech.
00:05:41.700 That's just the state of Canada today.
00:05:44.240 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. Unbelievable.
00:05:59.660 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.
00:06:13.080 University of Alberta to become first to abandon race-centric hiring.
00:06:18.160 Schools set to return to prior system of hiring based on qualifications.
00:06:22.440 It's 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. Really ridiculous. 0.79
00:06:34.000 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.
00:06:44.340 Oh, you know the federal government is going to want to fight this. You better believe they're going to want to fight this.
00:06:49.680 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.
00:07:08.600 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.
00:07:24.060 For some, the language of DEI has become polarizing, focusing more on what divides us rather than our shared humanity. 0.98
00:07:32.300 No shit. No freaking shit. 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. You're doing exactly that, which you say you're against. 1.00
00:07:50.140 about you hire people based on the effort they put in to be qualified for the position
00:07:56.520 and forget all about their skin color, their background, their ancestry, who they choose to
00:08:03.240 sleep with. None of that has anything to do with the job. Some perceive an ideological bias at odds
00:08:09.500 with merit. Bill Flanagan, president of the University of Alberta, explained in a January
00:08:14.080 2025 op-ed for the Edmonton journal it really is such a joke that we ever moved from hiring people
00:08:21.520 based on how qualified they are for the actual job and instead started employing them based on a bunch
00:08:27.360 of other bs like their skin color and who they choose to sleep with i'm glad alberta's leading
00:08:32.800 the charge in returning to common sense because boy does canada ever need some common sense
00:08:38.720 I hear the train is coming. It's rolling around the bed. And I ain't seen the sunshine. I don't know when.