If the government requires you to have a license to work, licensing authorities can abuse that requirement to make you take ideologically-slanted training about “white privilege” or “unconscious bias,” as happens in the United States to doctors, lawyers, and public school teachers (even though “unconscious bias” training is discredited and ineffective).
In Canada, things are even worse. You can be sentenced to ideological re-education for disagreeing with progressive ideology. “Jordan Peterson lost a court battle after the College of Psychologists of Ontario ordered him to go through remedial social media training” because of his anti-woke social media posts:
A three-judge Ontario Court of Appeal panel dismissed Peterson’s request for leave to appeal a previous ruling. Peterson wrote on X that there aren’t any other legal routes to appeal the decision.
“A higher court in Canada has ruled that the Ontario College of Psychologists indeed has the right to sentence me to re-education camp. There are no other legal avenues open to me now,” Peterson wrote. “It’s capitulate to the petty bureaucrats and the addle-pated woke mob or lose my professional licence.”
”Congratulations, @CPOntario! You won this round. Mark my words, however: the war has barely started. There is nothing you can take from me that I’m unwilling to lose,” he added.
Peterson added, “watch out…You’ve been warned.”
In a separate post, Peterson wrote: “I want the entire current crop of minions at the College of Psychologists to publicly apologize and then resign–en masse.”
”They want me to undergo re-education, which they know will take up my time and fail in any case, so they can undermine my reputation and take my licence away anyway,” he said.
Peterson’s attorney, Howard Levitt, told the outlet that the decision gives more power to regulatory agencies.
“I think it’s going to be a licence to regulatory bodies to be more aggressive,” Levitt said.
Peterson was the subject of several complaints filed with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, such as calling a plus-size Sports Illustrated model “not beautiful” and commenting on Elliot Page’s gender transition, stating the individual “had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”
The licensing board ruled that Peterson had to undergo social media training or risk his license being suspended, prompting legal action.
As the National Post reported, the complaints against Peterson that led to him being ordered to undergo reeducation
deal mostly with Peterson’s political commentary and language he used on social media…Peterson said that none of the complaints came from his clients and many of them came from outside Canada….Peterson, who is also a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto, put his practice on hold in 2017 but is still a licensed psychologist.
In response to the complaints, the college investigated, and ordered Peterson to undertake media training, at his own expense, or risk the suspension of his licence to practice in Ontario.
Peterson refused to undergo training, and asked the courts to review whether the college had such authority. He maintained that his speech was political, and outside the purview of the college’s authority and that he had his own team in place to monitor his conduct.
