Thu Dec 8, 2022 – 6:37 pm EST
KITCHENER, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – Jordan Peterson and his legal team are pushing forward with a lawsuit against Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) for statements that two professors made about him in 2017, including one who compared Peterson’s message to “a speech by Hitler.”
Exclusive: Wilfrid Laurier University asks court to dismiss Jordan Peterson lawsuit https://t.co/0IKjvxOq20
— National Post (@nationalpost) December 8, 2022
The National Post reported that WLU asked the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to dismiss the defamation lawsuit, arguing that it would limit free expression.
The university’s defence has argued that Peterson’s lawsuit against the school and the professors is an attack on freedom of expression, even though in 2017 the WLU administration and professors attempted to stop the exchange of Peterson’s ideas on campus. WLU’s motion to the Superior Court called it “a strategic lawsuit against public participation, which has been brought to limit Laurier’s expression and to deter it from participating in public discourse on matters of public interest.”
Kathryn Marshall, one of Peterson’s lawyers who is a National Post columnist, said there is “zero merit” to WLU’s motion and the school is using it
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