The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
Alberta Court of Appeal tees up an argument for western separation
The Constitution is a deal. If Alberta and Saskatchewan resolved to leave, could anyone blame them?
Frozen: How Canada’s banks betrayed their customers during the Emergencies Act
That green chair doesn’t look quite so comfy anymore.
Canada’s Charter was naive from the beginning
The Charter’s vagueness allows courts to reign supreme.
The Emergencies Act wasn’t the only sledgehammer
Perhaps the issue was bias against the Freedom Convoy.
Why the Charter doesn’t stop vax mandates
Governments discriminate all the time, Pardy says, and the effectiveness of the Charter is limited.
A tale of two Constitutions: US versus Canada on vaccine mandates
Rights Probe Executive Director and Queen’s University law professor, Bruce Pardy, says that law and politics work differently south of the border.
Back to the future: ‘Two weeks to flatten the curve’ was a dangerous mistake from the beginning
What we have now is a dependent population, economically and psychologically.
After two days to flatten the Bouncy Castle, Canada needs a new Constitution
The way to protect liberty is to reject the legitimacy of the managerial state.
Bill 67 would entrench Critical Race Theory in Ontario schools, say critics
Anti-racism “means discriminating on the basis of race,” while “non-racism is the belief that race does not matter—that people should be treated equally under the law as human beings regardless of their race.” ~ Bruce Pardy
Real concern of Emergencies Act is government’s control over Canadians’ life savings: legal expert
“That’s not the way banking should work in a free and democratic country.” ~ Bruce Pardy
Opinion: Canadian lawyers urge rejection of Emergencies Act
“The rule of law is a fundamental principle of our constitutional order and requires that the government be bound by the law. It appears that the government has enacted an Emergency Declaration where it has not met the strict criteria permitting it to do so.”
Not going to be a ‘punching bag’ for the police: Freedom Convoy spokesman announces peaceful withdrawal from Ottawa
“I never thought I’d see the day when law enforcement officers would be arresting citizens for the crime of exercising their charter rights and freedoms to free assembly and free speech.”
Trudeau’s invocation of Emergencies Act could have long-term consequences for Canadians: legal experts
“If this invocation of the Emergencies Act is valid, then governments have the power to declare emergencies and crush any peaceful protest, any dissent, that threatens their political fortunes and ideology, and that’s not the kind of country we want to live in.” ~ Bruce Pardy, law professor and executive director of Rights Probe.
The Charter won’t protect us from the pandemic managerial state
Bruce Pardy provides a bracing evaluation of how the Charter actually operates in an era of expansive government and imaginative jurists.
Mandatory vaccines would at least prove whether the Charter is worth anything at all
As for the already vaccinated, making boosters mandatory would abandon any pretence of persuasion.
It’s time to drop the hysteria and learn to live with COVID
COVID-19 is here to stay. Therefore, COVID is done. Either mild Omicron is the end of COVID madness, or there is no off-ramp. The panic-demic must finish or we will be doing this forever.
VIDEO: Lawyers launch campaign to protect civil liberties in Canada
There are still people who value civil liberties in this country.
COVID is the virus. Wokeness is the disease
Wokeness, or social justice as it is also known, is an anti-Western ideology and is now Canada’s secular religion.
They’re coming for the kids
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children—or in this case, what it does to them. ~ German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
COVID has cost Canadians their freedom. It must be restored.
Western legal tradition has protected individual autonomy better than any other legal system in history. The problem is that for decades that tradition, and the culture from whence it came, have slowly been eroding.
“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.”