2017/05/17: Senate hearing on Bill C16

Jordan B Peterson · 2.3M views · 2017-05-18 · 1:00:09

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Jordan Peterson's testimony at the Canadian Senate hearing on Bill C16, which added gender identity and expression to protected grounds. He argues against compelled speech.

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Referenced as the hearing that propelled Peterson to public visibility and as a source on the compelled speech debate.

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Free speech, censorship & civil liberties Law, policing & justice

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um_ya · 2020-06 · Reference
I'm not sure if the compelled speech was actually adopted into law. I'm referring to Jordan Peterson's interview and senate hearing in relation to the law. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
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TheRealDunkirk · 2019-10 · Reference
This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility. [VIDEO]
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jack9 · 2017-08 · Reference
> despite numerous respectable legal scholars informing him that you could never get in trouble for not using a person's preferred pronoun because of this bill. [VIDEO] As mentioned, his employer's lawyers did think so. The Adversarial Model (legal system) doesn't consider that some parties come to other conclusions. It would be ill-advised to listen to "experts" that are not part of a case, taking the advice of pundits* or other unconnected parties is not compelling evidence of legal finding. *It's primarily in the US, that the mass media promotes education pundits as corroboration in legal matters.
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