Peterson blasts Carney and the state of Canada on Joe Rogan podcast

Psychologist, author and podcaster Jordan Peterson laid out his analysis of the Canadian election to comedian Joe Rogan’s global audience in a podcast released yesterday.

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Psychologist, author and podcaster Jordan Peterson laid out his analysis of the Canadian election to comedian Joe Rogan’s global audience in a podcast released yesterday.

During the conversation, Peterson attributed the revival of the Liberal Party of Canada to both the replacement of Trudeau as prime minister and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs and jabs at Canada’s sovereignty.

“The polls indicate that Carney will win, and maybe with a majority government. And I can see why. Canadians were accustomed to having everything go pretty well, and we could be morally superior to you Americans, because that was also fun,” Peterson said. “And we’ll never forgo that opportunity, and Trump has provided it in spades in the last month.”

Peterson laid much of the blame for the Liberals’ revival in the polls on Trump and said the U.S. president might pay for the blunder by facing a very well-connected enemy with globalist ties in Carney.

He went on to describe how he believes Carney has conned the Canadian public into thinking he represents a time before Trudeau as a central banker and that he is lying about being an industrialist.

“(Canadians) look at Carney, and we don’t pay any attention to politics, and we certainly don’t read his goddamn book,” he said. “We see someone who looks like a banker from the 1990s when everything was just fine in Canada and Canadians were just as rich as Americans, and the whole country was stable and peaceful.”

He said many Canadians might have had buyer’s remorse with Trudeau.

“We think we kind of made a mistake on Justin. Turned out he was a little incompetent, little narcissistic, and maybe we shouldn’t have voted for him just because he legalized marijuana,” Peterson said in a mocking tone. “But now, look, we’ve learned, and we’re not going to be fooled by narcissistic pretenders.”

He noted that many Canadians look at Carney and think he has “a pretty good resume,” but a look at his book, “Value(s).” True North covered Carney’s book as part of a series.

“He believes that 75% of the fossil fuels in the world should be left in the ground, and that there’s nothing that should guide your purchasing decision by force, other than decarbonization,” Peterson said.

Rogan noted that Poilievre looked like he was gathering steam months ago and wondered what happened.

“The Liberals were headed for extinction. It was going to be the worst defeat of a governing party in Canada ever. They might have lost their official party status. So it was. They were done,” Peterson said. “Well. They pivoted. Brought in Carney, who’d been advising Trudeau. He’s put himself up as an outsider, a competent outsider, a lot of private, private experience in the private domain, you know, a steady hand at the helm.”

He blasted Carney for being Trudeau’s economic advisor since 2020 and an insider for at least a decade. He blasted him for pretending to be an industrialist when he’s one of the leading authorities on anti-business movements, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as environmental, social, and governance initiatives, and the push towards Net Zero.

Recent studies by the Fraser Institute have found that the Liberal goal of achieving “Net Zero” carbon emissions by 2030 or 2050 is likely an impossible endeavour for several reasons, including growing energy needs in the West.

“All you have to do is read his book, which people don’t, of course..the first three chapters will do the trick,” Peterson said. “Well, now either he’s decided that every single thing he ever believed was wrong right to the core, and hasn’t apologized or let anyone know that. And now he’s actually Mr. Into industry, which is how he’s presenting himself to Canadians or or he believes what he’s always believed.”

Rogan called Carney a “wolf in grandma’s clothing.”

“People either correct course by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and it looks to me like we’ve chosen the severe pain route. We already produce 60 cents to every dollar you Americans produce, even though we were at parity 10 years ago. And so after four more years of Carney, we could easily have that down to 50 cents, spiralling housing prices, a lot of social instability in Canada, especially since after October 7, all my Jewish friends in Toronto are terrified. That’s not fun. I don’t like seeing that.”

Peterson then blasted the CBC and the Leaders Debates Commission for cancelling the English Debate scrum rather than allowing independent media the opportunity to ask the leaders questions.

Rogan noted that candidates to lead a country should be willing to engage with opposing perspectives and should also have strong answers against those opinions they oppose, but Peterson said the legacy media-backed candidate, Carney, is already leading in the polls than their is no incentive for him to be questioned.

“If your guys leading, why ask questions? That’s the legacy media in Canada. It’s the CBC. It’s state-funded,” Peterson said. “$1.4 billion in direct government subsidies and $600 million in federal advertising per year.

He noted that the CBC’s audience is largely people over the age of 55, and Poilievre is running on defunding legacy media, so the CBC has an inherent conflict of interest to cover the Conservatives in a negative light.

Rogan said he thought it was “incredible to watch” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh continuously interrupting Poilievre, noting that he always thought Canadian discourse was more polite. Peterson predicted that Singh, a socialist, is likely to lose his seat and the NDP might even lose official party status.

To have official party status in the Canadian House of Commons, a party needs to have at least 12 MPs elected under the banner of a registered political party.