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A little background on Peterson's political background from this Star article.

"He spent a lot of time in the Notley home, getting to know Grant Notley, Sandy’s husband and leader of the Alberta NDP. Peterson sometimes joined double dates with their daughter Rachel, now the province’s premier.

And he shared the family’s politics.

“I was probably attracted by the essential idea of fairness, something like that,” he said, “interested in policies that were designed to help ordinary people.”

When he was 14, he ran for vice-president of the Alberta NDP. He attended party conventions and met Roy Romanow and Ed Broadbent. He sang the left-wing anthem “The Internationale” with labour leaders.

But around the age of 18, he became disillusioned with the “party functionaries,” although he still liked the leaders. “They were resentful, just like the social justice warriors” of today, Peterson said.

And he said he had a crisis of faith.

“I stopped believing that the philosophy that was embodied in socialism was sufficient to redress the problems that I felt were paramount,” said Peterson, who was becoming increasingly concerned about social conflict."

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight...t-is-back.html