THIS WEEKEND: The conversation Albertans need to have is hitting the road. Tickets: http://TheLavigneShow.com/events Law professor Bruce Pardy didn’t write another political pamphlet. He wrote a constitution. Thirteen articles designed to lock government into limits it cannot rewrite, expand, or ignore. The type of architecture that keeps power on a short leash — forever. Thirteen […]
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Alberta Separatism | Bridge City News What does freedom mean and what will it take for an independent Alberta to turn the page and chart a new era? Law professor and Articles of Freedom author Bruce Pardy reminds us that most of the rules that bind Albertans today already come from Edmonton, not Ottawa. Hand the […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the Western Standard A free country must resolve a paradox: a state is needed to keep the peace, yet the state’s monopoly on force is also the greatest threat to liberty. Law professor Bruce Pardy argues that Alberta’s constitution should therefore do two unusual things to protect citizens and restrain […]
In these pages, law professor Bruce Pardy sets out 13 carefully crafted Articles that form the constitutional architecture of a free country. The design is intentionally simple. It does not try to administer life. It tries to secure it. The default flips from state power to individual freedom, leaving the state only with powers expressly […]
In this essay, published by the Fraser Institute, law professor Bruce Pardy contends that Canada’s property-rights crisis stems from constitutionally entrenched special status for Aboriginal peoples. The resulting two classes of citizens violate the principle that justice should be blind to lineage or ancestry, he argues. Drawing on the universal human history of invasion, migration, […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by The Brownstone Institute This piece, published on July 16, is a longer, expanded “director’s cut” version of a National Post article by Professor Pardy, published on July 4. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the National Post It wasn’t supposed to be this way. 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 the lives of its people. How did it […]
By Vlad Tepes, published by RAIR Foundation USA In Brief by Probe Media A decision to allow a mosque in Regina to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for about three minutes every Friday at noon via rooftop speakers has sparked noise complaints from residents, online criticism, and what the mosque called abusive messages and […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the Western Standard Alberta should heed the lessons of Brexit. So suggests Ian Cooper, a senior research fellow at Dublin City University’s Brexit Institute. In May, the CBC published a piece citing Cooper’s sense of déjà vu. “I think that Brexit has a lot of lessons to teach Albertans about […]
By Bruce Pardy for the Fraser Institute In late May, the Supreme Court of Canada ducked. Six months earlier, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decided that Aboriginal title could not be declared against private property. The Aboriginal claimants tried to appeal to the Supreme Court. On May 28, the Court declined to hear the case. That doesn’t mean […]