Peter Menzies: Jordan Peterson Is a Victim of Tall Poppy Syndrome in His Own Country

Commentary One of Canada’s more serious cultural pathologies is its persistently irritating insistence upon self-deprecation. The habit manifests itself in many fashions—sports, film, television, literature—and when it comes to celebrities there is no greater, nor perhaps more puzzling example than Jordan Peterson. While he is popular and respected globally—he is considered by many in the British, American, and Australian punditry to be a leading public intellectual—he is shunned by his home nation’s self-styled illuminatae. I’ll admit I found the initial public version of the former University of Toronto professor to be more fun than the current manifestation, but only because the latter too often appears angry, besieged, and employs terminology that seems at times to have migrated from refreshingly frank to unnecessarily confrontational....