Ellen Page has been stripped of her psychologist license by the College of Psychologists of Ontario, a board that monitors professional psychologists' relationships with their clients. She's also been accused of being a racist, sexist, and anti-Canadian in her tweets, which led to her losing her license to practice psychology in Canada. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about what happened to her, why it happened, and what she's going to do now that her license has been taken away from her. Plus, Ellen talks about her new book, and why she thinks it's a good thing she's not allowed to express herself politically. Wealthsimple is built for whatever you're building. Built for Jane, who wants to break into the housing market, built for Ted, who's obsessed with what's happening in the global markets, and built for Celine, who just wants to retire and explore the world's flea markets. We've got the financial tools to help make it happen. Visit Wealthsimple.co/Possibilities to set yourself up for the future you want to live in a world where you can be, work, and have a good time in a safe, secure, and fun place. We're built for possibilities. You can t live without possibility, and you'll never have to live without it. - Wealthsimple - Built for possibilities, built by Jane and Ted, built to help you live, not just for you, by Ted, by Celine and Ted. Today's episode features an interview with author, author, journalist, and writer, Ellen Page, who shares her thoughts on what it means to her life and what it's like to be a good human being a good person. Music: "The Good, the Bad, Bad, and the Good, Good, and Good, Bad and the Great, the Good Good, The Bad, the Beautiful, the Things She's Been Through It All by The Good, by Jeff Perla, and more! (featuring a live recording of her new album, "It's a Good Day" by Ed Sheeran. (and much more). and much more! Want more like that? Check it out on Soundproof and more? Subscribe to the podcast by clicking here and let us know what you're listening to this podcast on your favourite podcast and share it with a friend and tell us what you think about it on social media or your favorite podcasting platform?
00:01:00.380The College of Psychologists of Ontario, a regulatory board that was formed to monitor psychologists' relationships with their clients mainly, has been after you for, is it three years or is it longer than that?
00:01:13.880It depends on the waves, but for this issue, it's been three or four years, yeah.
00:01:20.380So working professionals like doctors, lawyers, massage therapists even, are all overseen by regulatory boards.
00:01:27.760What regulatory boards are supposed to do is give clients who've been basically abused by working professionals a place to go to, to complain to.
00:01:35.220What happened to you is a bunch of people who weren't your clients, random people online from all over the world, complained about a number of your tweets, as well as comments you made on Joe Rogan.
00:01:45.640The sorry, not beautiful tweet in reference to a extremely obese swimsuit model, a tweet criticizing the government of Canada, a tweet saying that physicians removing women's breasts for being trans was criminal.
00:01:59.720And one, I thought, fairly entertaining tweet suggesting that this is the tweet that people online are saying you were inciting suicide, which honestly, I think you'd have to have the IQ of a beetle in order to think that.
00:02:13.700But anyway, you responded to someone who thought the world's population was too high and suggested that he should include himself in the depopulation he was already suggesting.
00:02:23.680The college basically took all those complaints and decided that you pose a moderate risk to the public.
00:02:31.340And I quote, the tweets were undermining public trust in the profession of psychology and trust in the college's ability to regulate the profession in the public interest.
00:02:40.440So completely ignoring the fact that one morbid obesity should not be encouraged as it kills people, removing your breasts and sterilizing yourself should not be encouraged.
00:02:51.560And I'm not even sure why we'd have to explain that criticizing the government should be protected and sarcasm is a form of humor.
00:02:58.260They decided you have to undergo re-education, which you fought back against and appealed and lost because, in my opinion, the court system in Canada is full of woke judges.
00:03:13.320And now you're basically in a position where you either undergo re-education, which won't work because you won't get turned woke or you lose your license.
00:04:11.920They take pretty much all my attention.
00:04:13.960And having to fight this war, well, it's tiring.
00:04:18.880You know, I have to plot, strategize, write, watch my tongue, consider my next best move.
00:04:28.520And I also have to face the dismal reality that, as I wrote in the National Post, in Canada's National Post this week, that in some real fundamental sense, Canada's Charter of Rights isn't worth the paper it's written on.
00:04:43.400And likely, professionals in this country can say goodbye to their right to express themselves, politically or otherwise, politically or professionally.
00:04:58.060I don't think that my tweets, some of my tweets were political in a sense, in that I was criticizing certain government figures.
00:05:04.640I was a councilman, Trudeau's former chief of staff, and Justin, the WF puppet himself, and I suppose you could argue that those were political opinions, and fair enough, but I have the right to my political opinions.
00:05:20.180The tweets that I really got criticized for, particularly the one regarding Ellen Page, or Elliot Page, or however he or she wants to be referred to, I also regarded that as a professional obligation,
00:05:39.760because I think it's incumbent on psychologists with an ounce of integrity to point out the danger of having self-deluded, narcissistic, self-destructive celebrities parade their proclivity to self-sterilize and self-mutilate as a public good on their public forums.
00:06:04.500So, I don't regret any of that, and I certainly, you know me, Michaela, I can feel guilty at the drop of a hat.
00:06:12.600It's actually one of my outstanding features, and I've scoured my conscience with regards to these accusations, and the best I can do is to find them grimly amusing.
00:06:26.680This is so ridiculous. I mean, the fact that the college accepted a complaint that was the entire transcript of my three-hour discussion with Joe Rogan pretty much says it all.
00:06:41.640And by the way, on the climate front, just so that everyone is crystal clear about this,
00:06:46.320I think the climate models that are used to justify the encroaching tyranny planned by the WF are 100% untrustworthy.
00:06:55.840And I think that the notion that we should let people terrify us to death with notions of an impending climate apocalypse,
00:07:03.980so that we have to be locked down in every possible manner, give up our automobiles, give up our private, give up our flights, private or otherwise,
00:07:12.880give up our right to buy clothing, give up our right to eat, give up our right to keep grandma warm or cool in the summer, let's say.
00:07:21.580It's like, no, sorry, no, wrong in every possible way.
00:07:28.420And more and more people are waking up to that realization.
00:07:32.780You know, some of these tweets are now two years old.