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On Friday January 6, 2023 the Financial Post published an OpEd in defense of Dr. Jordan Peterson that was written by Howard Levitt in the wake of a ruling against the good doctor by the Ontario College of Psychologists.
Here is Mr. Levitt's lede:
On Friday January 6, 2023 the Financial Post published an OpEd in defense of Dr. Jordan Peterson that was written by Howard Levitt in the wake of a ruling against the good doctor by the Ontario College of Psychologists.
Here is Mr. Levitt's lede:
Given how hard Jordan Peterson has worked (and continues to work), it is difficult to attribute his phenomenal successes to simple good fortune. But, sometimes, even he can just get lucky.As a result of the most boneheaded unforced error I have ever seen, the Ontario College of Psychologists is about to propel his already ascendant career into meteoric orbit.The College has just ordered Peterson to attend a Maoist style, compulsory social media re-education program at a cost to him of $225 per hour, such sessions to continue until these paid “educators” determine that he is sufficiently penitent. His refusal to participate — and of course he has refused — will lead to a public disciplinary hearing and potential cancellation of his professional license as a psychologist...
And here is how Mr. Levitt's closes his piece:
...Peterson’s is an important fight. His failure would leave many vulnerable to attacks on their employment by third party letters to their professional bodies or even to their employers by leftists (today, tomorrow who knows what political views will be ascendant) with opposing views claiming that they have put their profession into disrepute, (which is an actual offense under Law Society rules). I had one such complaint for a previous column when I referred to a decision of a privacy commissioner as boneheaded, for which I was informally cautioned. Such weaponization of political opinions must be stopped in its tracks. Peterson is just the person to do it...
And here is what the Financial Post told its readers about Mr. Levitt in the afterward to the OpEd:
Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt Sheikh, employment and labour lawyers with offices in Toronto and Hamilton. He practices employment law in eight provinces. He is the author of six books including the Law of Dismissal in Canada.
Which is all fine and good as far as it goes.
Based on that, any reasonable reader could conclude that Mr. Levitt is a lawyer who is of the personally held opinion that Dr. Peterson's fight against the College of Ontario Psychologists is a righteous one*.
But...
Here is what the Financial Post did not tell its readers:
Imagine that!
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And, it would appear, a righteous fight against leftists everywhere as well based on the rhetoric used repeatedly in the piece (i.e. not just in the lede and the kicker as noted here).
Independent, Jesse Brown-free, confirmation of Mr. Levitt's having acted as Mr. Peterson's lawyer in the past can be found...Here.
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4 comments:
Failing to identify Levitt as Dr Peterson's mouthpiece shows a lack of professionalism by the Postmedia as bad as that shown by Peterson and Levitt themselves. It's really not that difficult - if you want the credibility and status that comes with a profession, then abide by the profession's standards of competence, ethics and courtesy. If that's too difficult, then quit the professions like Ezra Levant did and be free to earn a living spinning, lying and grifting the rubes.
Anon-Above--
Clearly, the good Doctor, with the support of legal counsel, wants to have it both ways.
What I find particularly problematic is how the dual state(r)gy coalesces at woke bashing and how complicit Postmedia, via numerous outlets has become in the latter.
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Yes, well, clearly woke Oberlin students complaining about the cafeteria's pulled pork banh mi is far worse than Herr Doktor diagnosing the PM's mental age without formally assessing him.
First of all Twitter is for Twits, Monty Python style.
https://youtu.be/dHJ8f3okrI8
Secondly, I haven't a clue about Dr. Jordan Peterson and I do not care.
I tend to believe that all these personality cults, greatly exaggerated by the mainstream media, camouflages the fact they do little real reporting. There are many more far more important stories about Canada than some Conservative type, doing what they do best, inflame the left.
I am far more interested in Beijing's spies in government and why they have not been rooted out. but that, I guess, takes to much effort and treads on too many toes.
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