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Jordan Peterson Rips Ontario Premier As ‘The Most Dangerous Woman In Canada’

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David Krayden Ottawa Bureau Chief
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Canadian psychology professor and free speech advocate Jordan Peterson called the premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne “the most dangerous woman in Canada” in a Toronto Sun interview.

Citing Shakespeare, Peterson noted, “One (may) smile and smile and smile and still be a villain.”

Peterson, who teaches at the University of Toronto and is despised by liberal academics for his refusal to utilize gender-neutral pronouns, slung a host of zingers against Wynne, currently one of the least popular premiers in Canada — especially with Peterson.

Wynne and her governing Liberal Party are facing the provincial electorate on June 7, in an election that polls predict will be won by newly-installed Conservative leader Doug Ford, the populist brother of the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Wynne has divided the province with massive budget deficits and far-left social policies like a graphic sex education program for elementary school kids.

“I’m not a fan of hers, at all … I think that she’s a reprehensible ideologue,” he told the Sun. “I think she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing as well because she’s not a Liberal by any stretch of the imagination.”

Peterson contends that Wynne has moved the Liberal Party Further to the left than the quasi-socialist New Democratic Party that also vies for votes in Ontario.

When asked if he would like to enter the political arena himself, Peterson says he can offer the best service where he is — as a non-partisan critic.

And critic he is. He’s called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “Peter Pan” leader. And Wynne: “I think Kathleen Wynne is an utter disaster,” Peterson told the Sun. “I think she’s the most dangerous woman in Canada.”

He’s also an outspoken critic of the social justice movement that thrives in Canadian universities and its promotion of so-called “fairness.”

“They’re not so interested in the idea of useful productivity and they’re not aligned with the idea that perhaps disproportionate reward should flow to those who put more effort and time into things,” Peterson told the Sun.

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