The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
How the American republic became a managerial state
The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. The Bill of Rights. But America has instead become a managed society. Its government dominates its people. How did it go wrong?
How Americans gave up their own republic
Bruce Pardy: Decades of court rulings and legislation shifted power from elected leaders to unelected bureaucracies.
Brexit holds a clear lesson for Alberta independence
Britain’s referendum forced the establishment to honour the result. Alberta’s vote-to-have-a-vote question gives politicians room to escape it.
Welcome to Canada’s new blasphemy regime
Bill C-9 test: A public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer in a shared downtown space drew entirely predictable pushback over noise and changing neighbourhood character. Police immediately framed potential responses through the lens of the new hate crime regime.
Supreme Court kicks property crisis down the road
No court has yet awarded privately owned land to an Aboriginal group. Can it be done? The Supreme Court of Canada has still not answered the question.
An American not in Paris
Bruce Pardy praises the Trump administration’s exit from the Paris Climate Agreement—not as climate denial, but as a principled rejection of a progressive fairy tale in pursuit of a Marxist-style global transformation.
No independence vote because courts
The court rulings are a convenient pretext. Danielle Smith does not actually want Alberta independence and is manufacturing obstacles to ensure it never happens under her leadership. ~ Bruce Pardy
Alberta’s Future: 3 Constitutional Models
Go bold or play it safe? Serious ideas for a constitutional blank slate.
Canada is cooked
Advice from a constitutional expert: Canada is headed toward communism and youth should “get out.”
Go for it!
Cultural and constitutional change inside Canada? Not likely. That leaves Alberta independence as the rare revolutionary opening, but the window won’t stay open for long. Bruce Pardy in conversation with the Brave New Normal’s Jason James.
The wages of ‘land acknowledgments’
Words have consequences and that’s a problem for all of Canada.
It’s not a big deal
Three erroneous reasons to ignore the Aboriginal title threat to property in B.C. ~ Bruce Pardy
Bruce Pardy: Racial discounts for violent criminals was inevitable in equity-obsessed Canada
The Supreme Court ensured the Charter would never guarantee equality under the law.
What would Alberta’s constitution look like after independence?
A wide-ranging interview with Professor Bruce Pardy, one of the more prominent academic voices examining what an independent Alberta might look like, including how its legal system and constitution could differ from Canada’s current framework.
Canada’s different classes of citizens
Professor Bruce Pardy explains why Canada’s laws don't treat everyone the same.
An independent Alberta?
An interview with law professor Bruce Pardy about the potential for Alberta to become a truly independent country.
Alberta independence debate
“I don’t want to see Canada destroyed. But here’s the problem: it has already been destroyed.” Law professor Bruce Pardy and former Alberta premier Jason Kenney face off over whether Alberta should leave Canada.
C-9 is an affront to free speech, but the government took it away long ago
Bruce Pardy: ‘Guaranteed rights’ are doublespeak of the modern managerial state.
Surrendered Vancouver
The federal government has quietly recognized Musqueam Aboriginal title over land that encompasses much of Metro Vancouver. No public consultation. No warning to the people who own homes there. This is not reconciliation. This is expropriation by another name.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”