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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Why don’t you just say what you mean?
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Here you go. Howard Levitt is well respected as a leading employment lawyer.
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/jo...-to-anyone-now
“In employment law, if you lose your job, you will be compensated by a court in an amount between two and 27 months depending upon factors such as re-employability, age, and length of service. But what if you are deprived, not of a particular job, but of your livelihood as this College is threatening and every professional regulatory body can?
Courts have dealt with this, finding that the damages from employer complaints leading to regulatory delicensing are dramatically greater than damages for wrongful dismissal. This can occur in every licensed profession from licensed mechanics, to stockbrokers, pharmacists and teachers. And, as regulatory bodies are increasingly run by the woke (just take the Halton District School Board and the ludicrous case of the transgender teacher), those on the other political side are at risk. And, unlike Peterson, few can afford a suspension pending a hearing, let alone the costs and publicity associated with defending yourself against an unfriendly tribunal of political opponents.
Given that the college had the temerity to take on a person with such public support, one can only imagine how many psychologists with the wrong political opinions it has previously cowed into submission. 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.“