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2017/05/17: Senate hearing on Bill C16

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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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Referenced as the hearing that propelled Peterson to public visibility and as a source on the compelled speech debate.

“This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility.”HN comment, 2019

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Cites itjack9Aug 2017

Senate hearing where legal scholars discussed Bill C16

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> 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. this 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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Cites itTheRealDunkirkOct 2019

“This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility.”

Senate hearing that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility

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This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility. this video

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Cites itum_yaJun 2020

Source on Peterson's senate hearing about compelled speech

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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] this video

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