These two outstanding Canadians deserve the support of all of us

This past week, I have been somewhat engrossed by the travails of two distinguished friends, the world-famous Jordan Peterson — psychologist, philosopher and social scientist — and the brilliant writer and critic, Mark Steyn. Both are facing the oppressive vagaries of justice. In a contemptible abdication from the obligation and purpose of the courts to sort out facts and law and render justice as the authors of the relevant legislation had intended, a panel of the Ontario Divisional Court ruled that the College of Psychologists of Ontario had the authority to require Peterson to submit to instruction on public communications. Peterson has revealed that he will do so, despite the fact that he is by a very wide margin the most accomplished and admired lecturer and speaker in the history of Canada. His live lectures draw large crowds and his videos have been viewed by millions of people around the world. That some factotums of the (in all respects) provincial college of psychologists would be so transported by envy, hate and the malice of mediocrity that they would inflict such an impudence, vividly demonstrates what depths such people scrape when beset by spiteful jealousy.

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Contrary to what had been widely expected, Jordan Peterson will attend these sessions and will require that they be filmed, and he intends to expose these ludicrous proceedings as the mockery of a quasi-judicial procedure that they are. At some point, our courts are going to have to deal with the clash between the individual right of self-expression and the right and duty of the learned professions to self-regulate. In principle, it is certainly preferable for the professions to regulate themselves, but they must also recognize the rights of individual citizens to freedom of expression, thought and conscience. Jordan Peterson is a better and more authoritative person to judge what he........

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