Jordan Peterson lists Toronto home for $2.2 million as he heads to the U.S.

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Last December, psychologist Jordan Peterson revealed he had left Canada over his distaste with the Liberal government, its Online Harms Act, and his battle with the College of Psychologists.

That move has become permanent amid news that Peterson has listed his three-storey home in Toronto’s Seaton Village for $2,268,000.

In its listing, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom pad is described as being “architecturally distinct and masterfully customized” and “grounded in community and elevated in spirit.”

Among its other attributes is a “third-floor loft retreat that feels plucked from a Muskoka escape” and a “private wellness zone with radiant heated floors, an infrared sauna, and a walkout to the lush backyard.”

In an email to the National Post, Peterson’s daughter, Mikhaila Fuller, said that her parents are moving because “they were hardly in Toronto at all anymore, and it didn’t make sense to keep the house.”

Just before Christmas last year, the 12 Rules For Life author made the announcement during a sit down with Mikhaila on her podcast that he had left for the U.S.

Peterson, 63, who is a retired University of Toronto psychology professor, had been involved in a very public battle with a regulatory body’s order to send him “to re-education camp” or potentially lose his licence to practise.

“The issue with the College of Psychologists is very annoying, to say the least, and the new legislation that the Liberals are attempting to push through, Bill C-63, I’ll be living in a totalitarian hellhole if it passes,” Peterson said. “And it could well pass.”

The Liberals’ proposed Online Harms Act, Bill C-63, calls for life sentences for hate crimes or promoting genocide.

Peterson then cited the Liberals’ economic policies as another reason he was fleeing the country.

“The tax situation is out of hand,” Peterson continued. “The government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief. And it’s become uncomfortable for me in my neighbourhood in Toronto.”

Peterson also lashed out at Justin Trudeau over his government’s immigration policy that saw immigration levels spike to record numbers during his leadership.

“Everything that’s gone wrong on the immigration front in Canada is 100% attributable to Justin Trudeau and his pack of demented minions,” Peterson told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade.

Peterson said Trudeau’s policies — which saw the country’s population explode to 41 million people, up from 37.5 million in 2019 — “demolished the Canadian immigration system and threw the borders wide open, upending decades of effective immigration policy in Canada.”

Ahead of April’s federal election, Peterson warned podcaster Joe Rogan that if Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, was given a mandate by Canadians to lead the country, his fellow citizens will have chosen the path of “severe pain.”

“People correct course either by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and it looks to me like we’ve chosen the severe pain route,” Peterson said, predicting that with Carney in charge Canada could face a drastic economic decline and social chaos.

“Spiralling housing prices, a lot of social instability in Canada, especially since Oct. 7; all my Jewish friends in Toronto are terrified,” Peterson said. “That’s not fun. I don’t like seeing that. It’s awful.”

Calling the sale of the family home “bittersweet,” Peterson’s daughter said her parents are moving to Arizona’s Paradise Valley — located between Scottsdale and Phoenix — to be close to her and her family.

mdaniell@postmedia.com