‘Uncomfortable’: Jordan Peterson says he’s leaving Canada for U.S.

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Jordan Peterson says he’s leaving Canada for the United States and that it had become “uncomfortable” for him in his Toronto neighbourhood.

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Peterson made the announcement at the beginning of a nearly two-hour, sit-down interview with his daughter Mikhaila Peterson, posted on her YouTube account on Dec. 6.

They were quick to reveal that Peterson decided to move to the U.S. due to a myriad of reasons.

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“The government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief and it’s become uncomfortable for me in my neighbourhood in Toronto,” said Peterson.

Peterson, a psychologist and former University of Toronto professor in the department of psychology, was investigated by the College of Psychologists of Ontario after receiving complaints about his online conduct in 2022. His appeal was rejected by an Ontario court and he was ordered to enter a remedial coaching program.

“The issue with the College of Psychologists is very annoying to say the least,” he said in the interview.

“(With) the new legislation that the Liberals are attempting to push through, Bill C63, I’d just be living in a totalitarian hell hole if that legislation passes, and it could well pass.”

Bill C-63, also called the Online Harms Act, “contains a variety of measures to address a range of harmful content online as well as hate speech and hate crimes both online and offline,” according to the federal government. However, critics of the bill have pointed out that it groups issues together that don’t belong.

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The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association called it an “omnibus bill” that “combines a range of separate issues,” from hate-speech related crimes to non-consensual distribution of intimate images as well as mandatory reporting measures for internet child pornography.

“It’s a bill that purports to protect children from online harm, and that’s the beginning and the end of the bill, and the middle is literally the creation of a new extrajudicial system that isn’t bound by the rules of legal investigation or guilt, which has an unlimited range of expansion and all the powers of a court,” Peterson said about the bill later in the interview.

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