The refusal of the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the appeal of Jordan Peterson against the outrageous aggregation of injustices that have been inflicted upon him by academic and professional authorities and the lower courts neatly completes the self-exposure of the bankruptcy of our system of protection of civil rights — everyone's civil rights. This treatment of Professor Peterson, Canada's leading public intellectual and probably the most famous and esteemed Canadian in the world, is extremely important for what his case reveals and its implications for all Canadians.

To summarize the facts in his case, he was accused of violating the group rights of militant gender activists at the University of Toronto, where he was a distinguished professor in 2016. They demanded that he address them in newly devised terminology recognizing their non-binary gender self-identifications. He emphasized that he intended no offence but that his constitutionally and academically guarantied freedom of expression was being violated by their attempted dictation of his duty to address them in newly devised language that has no philological legitimacy. The administration of the university wavered and waffled, declined to support the professor, and warned him he risked facing the rigours of a Human Rights inquisition. His employers effectively put all academic traditions of liberty of expression over the side and valued the claim of activist students to be offended by their inability to dictate novel forms of address over Professor Peterson's right to enjoy freedom of expression as guarantied by our Constitution in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.