The Triumph of the Administrative State: A wide-ranging discussion with Bruce Pardy and Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders [see video] focused on the Canadian experience. The administrative state succeeded beyond its wildest dreams thanks to the rupture of COVID, when Canada’s nanny state became extreme and people succumbed in ways they would not have […]
Category: Pandemic
An online panel of lawyers organized by the National Citizens Inquiry on COVID-19 said the courts have failed to uphold Canadian rights since the pandemic began and a bleak future awaits. Lawyer Shawn Buckley described the Canadian experience as “the largest intrusion of government overreach into our personal lives, even in wartime,” without the courts […]
Bruce Pardy surveys the descent of Canada’s legal system into Alice-in-Wonderland surrealism, a state that poses dangers to virtually every Canadian and to the future of the rule of law itself. By Bruce Pardy, published by C2C Journal To hold themselves together, societies tell themselves stories. People are honest; marriages are faithful; parents are devoted […]
Bruce Pardy in conversation with journalist Trish Wood on the lessons of COVID-19 under a managerial state. “In a way,” says Bruce, “the biggest obstacle and biggest trauma has been our own disbelief” that a system and society we thought we knew was one we no longer recognized. The transformation began before the pandemic but […]
Bruce Pardy is one of a number of witnesses who have stepped up to testify at a citizen-led inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response. The purpose of the citizen-funded initiative is to investigate independently what went right and what went wrong with the responses and actions to COVID-19 taken by our governments across Canada, and to look […]
A two-parter! Bruce Pardy and Barry W. Bussey rake over the final word from the Emergencies Act inquiry – the Rouleau report. Bruce concludes that the inquiry served as a “cleansing process” for the justification of implementing the Emergencies Act: a process that produced a “performance” if not an outcome. The conversation continues from part […]
Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.
Bruce Pardy joins The Ezra Levant Show to dig into the results of the Emergencies Act Inquiry in Ottawa. “It is a mistake to think that this was going to be a court-like process,” says Bruce. “The inquiry was simply putting together a report, not a binding report, and it can’t find liability.”
Andrew Lawton devotes the latter part of his show (at the 51.36 mark) for a look into the Commission’s findings with Bruce Pardy, who has maintained from the outset there was no legal basis for the invocation of the Emergencies Act. The point of the Commission’s inquiry, he says, is to perform a “ritual” with […]
Lawyers are the last line of defence. But if lawyers have been compromised by requirements imposed on them by their own regulator, where are you going to go?