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Thirteen Things That Can’t Be Said About Aboriginal Law and Policy in Canada
From the archives: (September 18, 2020 | C2C Journal) The number of topics open to robust and far-reaching discussion in Canadian public policy is becoming smaller by the day. Among the many areas in which it appears heterodox thinking is now forbidden is Aboriginal law and policy. Professor Bruce Pardy digs deeper into one of Canada’s cultural taboos.
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Travel Mandate Lawsuits: Ruled Moot, with Lawyer Bruce Pardy
Free to Fly hosts lawyer Bruce Pardy, to discuss the travel mandate decision, appeals, silver linings (if any), and the state of our judiciary moving forward.
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Deconstructing the Narrative: Emergencies Act Inquiry & CCP Police in GTA
[FULL PANEL DISCUSSION] As the Emergencies Act Inquiry continues its probe into the Trudeau government’s invocation of a national emergency for the Freedom Convoy, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expand their international police presence in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), former police officers Danny Bulford (RCMP), Vincent Gircys (OPP) and Queen’s Law professor & Rights Probe executive director, Bruce Pardy, break down the merits and impact of the inquiry and discuss their concerns regarding CCP policing powers on Canadian soil.
The Real-World Consequences of COVID Lockdowns Are Bleak!
A special episode of the Liberty Dispatch hosted by Andrew DeBartolo and Matthew Hallick featuring three very different Canadians with three very different stories, but all with one commonality—crazy COVID mandates have drastic real-world consequences.
[Interview 1] - with former educator and concerned father, Rodd Moffitt (07:31-26:23)
[Interview 2] - Interview with former OPP officer, Elijah McCaughan (28:45-51:37)
[Interview 3] - Interview with civil-rights lawyer, Bruce Pardy (56:03-1:24:18)
You Must Be Crushed
First Freedoms with Barry W. Bussey: In Canada today, “to be progressive is to be neutral and to not be progressive is to be wrong.”
Special guest, lawyer and professor law, Bruce Pardy, returns to Freedom Feature for an in-depth discussion of progressivism.
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The Barbarians vs. The New Status Quo
Bruce Pardy joins The Shaun Newman Podcast to discuss the culture shift in ideas.
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August 29, 2022: It’s been one week since Western University announced its booster mandate for the upcoming year, a policy that’s been criticized by lawyers, doctors, professors and Western students alike. Over the weekend, hundreds of people protested the policy on Western’s campus. In this special edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew discussed the mandate with infectious diseases specialist Dr. Martha Fulford, law professor Bruce Pardy, ethics scholar Prof. Julie Ponesse, and student activist Kendra Hancock.
Trish Wood Is Critical
Episode 124: KENDRA HANCOCK AND BRUCE PARDY
An important university embarrasses itself, trashes its historic reputation and imperils its students by imposing dangerous vaccine mandates for the campus. Western University is an outlier and students who just recently got the news are pushing back hard against the school’s unscientific decision to require both boosters and masks. Trish Wood - of the Trish Wood Is Critical podcast - speaks to Kendra Hancock, one of the students behind the movement against the policy and Professor Bruce Pardy, a lawyer who specializes in issues of personal agency.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent Covid mandates—specifically on travel bans for those who choose not to get vaccinated—have arguable basis in science, logic, and precedent. Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with five experts investigating the matter from all angles, including Professor Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe.
What Led to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade?
Dr. Julie Ponesse and Professor Bruce Pardy zero in on the particulars of the Dobbs v. Jackson case to understand why a revisitation of the abortion issue came before the Supreme Court in the first place.
Can Canadians rely on the Supreme Court of Canada to protect their Charter rights and freedoms or has the highest court in Canada been compromised by its progressive agenda? On this episode of the Rupa Subramanya Show, Professor Bruce Pardy looks at the politics that drive Canada’s Supreme Court.
Totalitarian Rule of Man Replacing Neutral Rule of Law
The rule of law in Canada. Why is it different these days? Perhaps it's had a gradual makeover that time has finally made fully apparent: an unrecognizable rule of law.
In this interview hosted by Barry W. Bussey of First Freedoms Foundation, featuring Professor Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe, the impact of critical theory [the makeover brush] on the rule of law is the subject of discussion.
According to Professor Pardy, the rule of law—the rule of law we thought we knew—can be thought of rather simply as "the opposite of the rule of persons".
COVID and the End of the Rational University
Roundtable Discussion of the response by SAFS (Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship) to university COVID policies.
Led by Professor Bruce Pardy (Law, Queen’s University), featuring David Haskell (Communication, Wilfred Laurier University) and William McNally (Finance, Wilfrid Laurier University).
Part of the 2022 Annual General Meeting for the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.
A summary by Bruce Pardy of his portion of the presentation (beginning at the 31:03 mark) follows below. The video segment Bruce appears in is impaired by poor microphone performance, hence the summary.
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Academic freedom and “free speech” encompass the right to be free from censorship and compulsion – the right to say what you think and not to say what you do not believe. Freedom of expression has been described as the most important liberty. But it is not more important than bodily autonomy, including the right to refuse medical treatment, for without it we lose the right to govern our own bodies, and with it, control over health decisions.
Rights are not absolute but limited by the rights of others. Speech that threatens imminent violence is an assault, for example. But rights must not be curbed on the grounds of an amorphous “common good”, for that provides authorities with the power to restrict liberties at their discretion and on the thinnest of pretenses.
Vaccine mandates interfere with bodily autonomy but refusing to take a vaccine infringes the rights of no one. People do not have a legal right to be protected from respiratory viruses. If they did, the law would already be full of restrictions to prevent the spread of colds, the flu, and the many other viruses to which we are commonly exposed. And yet, during COVID, many universities made vaccination mandatory.
A Canada Strong & Free Network discussion of the Charter at 40 moderated by John Robson. Featuring guests Suzanne Anton QC, former attorney general of British Columbia and former crown prosecutor, Professor Bruce Pardy, executive director of Rights Probe and a professor of law at Queen’s University, and Brian Peckford PC, the last living drafter and signatory of the 1982 Constitution.
The Chinafication of Canada
In the last two years, the federal government have vastly expanded their power in the name of public health, and constitutional challenges have thus far been unsuccessful at stopping it. It still stands to be seen whether courts will condemn Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, which was used to conscript tow truck drivers, limit free expression, and freeze bank accounts. In an Epoch Times op-ed, constitutional lawyer Bruce Pardy and economist Patricia Adams write that Canada needs a new constitution. Pardy and Adams joined True North’s The Andrew Lawton Show for an in-depth discussion about the similarities between Canada and China when it comes to social credit, press freedom, and the rise of the state.
Professor Bruce Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe (RightsProbe.org) and professor of law at Queen’s University.
Patricia Adams is an economist and the President of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world.
Digital ID, Net-Zero, and the Slide to a Social Credit System
Professor Bruce Pardy joins Dr. Tammy Nemeth, host of The Nemeth Report, to dig deeper into Canada’s slow-motion slide towards a managerial surveillance state and social credit system.
The Nemeth Report looks at the role of hydrocarbons in a modern technological way of life through the lens of the environment and climate change.
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Free to Fly - A flight plan through legal turbulence
At the end of the long Covid day, what did we all catch? A managerial state. Bruce Pardy sits down with Free to Fly Directors, Greg Hill and Matt Sattler, to discuss mandates, the Canadian legal landscape and where we go from here.
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In this Freedom Feature conversation, law professor Bruce Pardy, comments on the underlying ideas that were made apparent in the loss of freedoms during the pandemic. The discussion travels from self-censorship and conformity to the legacy of the Charter.
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Democracy Doesn't Work Unless Citizens Think for Themselves | Julie Ponesse & Bruce Pardy
Dr. Julie Ponesse is joined by law professor and Rights Probe Executive Director Bruce Pardy to discuss the state of freedom in Canada, why autonomy and civil liberties have lost their footing, and where the collectivist approach to law came from.