Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said people should not be trying to stop prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson’s show in Ottawa. .“If they don’t like him, skip his event,” said Poilievre in a Friday tweet. .“If they don’t agree with him, debate him.”.He said people “can’t ban opinions they don’t like.”.Poilievre came to the defence of Peterson on January 6 after he said the College of Psychologists of Ontario was ordering him to undergo social media training or risk losing his psychologist licence. .READ MORE: Pierre Poilievre defends Jordan Peterson over mandatory social media retraining.“Now it should go without saying that in a free country, professionals should not lose their jobs and licences because they express a political opinion contrary to the licensing body that’s mandated by the government,” he said. .He said government-funded media will accuse him of endorsing all of Peterson’s opinions because he supports freedom of expression for him. He added he does not agree with 100% of what he has said. .Multiple community organizations requested on Monday Peterson’s show at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa be stopped. .READ MORE: Community groups call for Ottawa venue to cancel Peterson show.“The toxic, and often violent, rhetoric touted by Peterson — whose quasi-academic ideas are misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and racist — led to an increased environment of hate, especially toward the trans community, that has been very present in Ottawa,” said the organizations. .The letter was signed by 33 community groups, including Wisdom2Action, the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, and the Centretown Community Health Centre.
