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Kathleen Wynne is a radical leftist who wants to tear down the things that made Ontario, Canada and the West great, University of Toronto psychologist Jordan Peterson told a crowd assembled by Tory MPP Randy Hillier in Carleton Place on Thursday night.

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“If she had a shred of integrity, she’d resign,” Peterson said to applause, from a riser in a corner of a second-floor ballroom at the town arena.

“See if you can take the social-justice warriors out at the top,” he advised.

Young people could and should be energized into conservative activism by the promise of completely wiping out the Ontario Liberal Party, he said. There should be not one Liberal MPP left after the next election.

Hillier, who represents Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, had billed Peterson’s talk as non-political, focused on the importance of civic engagement. It … wasn’t.

If you look around the world at the state of governance in most places … the most pathological and vicious thugs rule

Peterson alternated between advocating some genuinely appealing conservative ideas and raging against straw-man versions of conservatives’ political opponents: