Canadian clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson rejected an offer by the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) to waive the legal fees he owed following his unsuccessful lawsuit if he resigns from his profession.
He disclosed this in an Oct. 11 op-ed, noting that lawyers for the CPO assumed he "could be bought" and "could be bought cheaply." Peterson continued that the regulatory college's legal team informed him and his lawyers that "a settlement offer might be possible."
"If Dr. Peterson agrees to resign, we would be willing to forego the legal costs the court ruled he owes us," the CPO attorneys allegedly offered. However, according to LifeSiteNews, the clinical psychologist would be banned from being able to practice in Ontario province if he agrees to resign.
Peterson subsequently described the offer as "insulting" and "preposterous," adding: "If cost alone was going to stop me, it would have happened long ago. If I was for sale, and I am not, it would be for a hell of a lot more than that court costs that the Supreme Court [of Canada] deemed me liable for when my appeal was rejected."
He also gave some bits of advice to the CPO and its lawyers in his article published by the National Post.
"Don't begin a negotiation, particularly when you are already backed into a corner, by insulting your would-be partner in play. In this particular case, more specifically: Don't assume that the target of your offer is open to something approximating a bribe," Peterson wrote. "In addition: If you are indeed daring and foolish enough to make such an offer, don't compound your error by cheapening out."
Peterson targeted by CPO over social media posts critical of Trudeau and child mutilation
The University of Toronto professor emeritus was targeted by the CPO over his social media posts critical of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and child mutilation. The college mandated Peterson to undergo social media "training" as a prerequisite for him to keep his license, but he challenged this in court. (Related: Canada rapidly criminalizing anyone who opposes transgenderism.)
The Ontario Court of Appeal denied his legal challenge last August and ordered him to pay $25,000 to the CPO. He then took his plea to Canada's high court, but the bench refused to hear his case. Peterson finally agreed to submit to the training in September, saying that he was doing so to defend free speech for all Canadians.
He had asked for the names of those tasked to "re-educate" him but information about the so-called "social media experts" was redacted. According to LifeSiteNews, Peterson's social media "training" must be done by November under the CPO's mandate. This essentially meant that the college only had roughly seven weeks "to straighten out the mess they created around themselves."
"They admitted that they did not have the wherewithal or the ability to undertake to administer the very re-education process they have so publicly and continually demanded I submit myself to. Unable to find a 'social media expert' willing to engage in my re-education, they will appoint one of their own or a minion thereof to take on the task," the clinical psychologist wrote.
"In doing so, they will attempt to arrange with me 'nothing but a heartfelt conversation' of relatively short duration, which I will still make entirely public, but which will contain nothing but cliched niceties on their part. God only knows how it will all end."
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