The Ezra Levant Show: Professor Bruce Pardy describes calls for reparations in Canada “political nonsense”. Punishing people for things they did not do, and rewarding people for damages they did not suffer runs contrary to the premise of how liability claims are (or were) handled in Canada, he says. In regards to Section 15(2) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which seeks to address historically marginalized groups through equality affirmative action programs, Prof. Pardy notes that, in the reality of now, “there is nothing that a white man is entitled to do that other people are not entitled to do.” The discrimination equity is left to address, he likens to “chasing ghosts” and “the attempt to make into villains the descendants of those groups that might have originally had a leg up.” By comparison to south of the border, Americans still have a constitutional guarantee of equal treatment under the law, which in Canada is not the case. In Canada, our constitutional right is the right to substantive equality, and that means equity.
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Equality and the status of Canada’s legal system
