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Was Jordan Peterson rightly concerned?
You be the judge.
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"When Toronto professor Jordan Peterson started arguing loudly against compelled speech in 2016 a lot of people thought he was making a big fuss about nothing.
Well, here we are in 2026 and a Quebec teacher either lies to parents or loses their job. With the connivance of officials in the provincial government, the teacher is being ordered to renounce their conscience and commit, what is to them, an immoral and unethical act."
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"According to Séguin, it is the first time a court action has raised freedom of conscience without also raising the issue of freedom of religion.
“It is true that prohibitions against lying are common to all religions, but my client’s conscientious objection is not religious in nature,” said Séguin.
“Secrecy toward parents, which in practice amounts to lying to them, is a serious violation of the legal contract that binds the state to its citizens.”
Séguin believes that the case is likely to be a landmark case concerning schools’ secrecy policies and freedom of conscience.
Let us hope the teacher wins, because once the state is allowed to lie in its policy documents, and once that is used to order people to lie to other citizens, then we are no longer sacrosanct individuals. We are mere tools of the state.
nationalpost.com/opinion/michae…
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