TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne is “the most dangerous woman in Canada,” University of Toronto professor and author Jordan B. Peterson says.

“I’m not a fan of hers, at all … I think that she’s a reprehensible ideologue,” he said. “I think she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing as well because she’s not a Liberal by any stretch of the imagination.”

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Under Wynne’s leadership, the Ontario Liberals have moved to the left of previous NDP governments, he said.

Peterson’s comments came in an exclusive interview with the Toronto Sun where he was asked whether he had any political ambitions.

The now internationally known professor and clinical psychologist said he has been thinking about politics for most of his life, since age 14 or even younger, but when considering what role to play has always come to the same conclusion.

Peterson believes he has the most to offer assessing politics through a psychological lens.

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Having said that, he has strong opinions about leaders like Justin Trudeau – he dubbed him a “Peter Pan”prime minister – and Wynne.

Most of Trudeau’s worst ideas, including his ‘gender equity’ budget for 2018, flow out of the work that Wynne was already doing in Ontario, he said.

“I think Kathleen Wynne is an utter disaster,” Peterson said. “I think she’s the most dangerous woman in Canada.”

The Wynne government releases a throne speech Monday, a prelude to a budget the following week and then a provincial election campaign.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa has already signalled that he will not balance the budget this year as previously stated, but instead will run a deficit possibly as high as $8 billion to pay for programs that bring fairness to Ontarians during a period of rapid economic change.

So what’s wrong with fairness?

“The problem is there’s multiple definitions of fairness,” Peterson said. “There’s the agreeable definition, which is everyone should have everything everyone else has, right?”

That type of fairness might mean treating your children equally, an imperative, he said.

Then there’s the kind of “fairness” favoured by the radical left, and he includes Wynne here, that seeks not equal opportunity but equal outcome.

“They’re not so interested in the idea of useful productivity and they’re not aligned with the idea that perhaps disproportionate reward should flow to those who put more effort and time into things,” Peterson said.

When it was suggested to him that Wynne is generally viewed as a nice person, even a grandmotherly type, Peterson quoted Shakespeare: “One (may) smile and smile and smile and still be a villain.”

“Everyone in Ontario is not her grandchild. We’re not infants,” he said. “We don’t need that much compassion and her insistence on identity politics is unacceptable. The things that have happened under her watch at the universities are unacceptable, they’re way worse than people think.”

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Peterson sees the evolution of the Ontario Human Rights tribunal as an example of Wynne’s ideology in practice, arguing that under her tenure the presumption of innocence in that sphere has been lost.

“We’re replacing that with ‘believe the accused’ and ‘preponderance of evidence’ and it’s part of the assault on English common law, which is regarded by the postmodern, neomarxists as just another narrative, and part of the patriarchal tyranny,” he said.

The outspoken Peterson has drawn criticism and protests for his views, dismissed by opponents as a cult figure for the alt-right, but for his many supporters he is a free speech champion.

His second book, 12 Rules for Life, has topped national and international best seller lists, and a YouTube video where he brings BBC host Cathy Newman to a befuddled halt has drawn 8.3 million views.

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