Probe MediaAfter a week of western appearances—including the Edmonton and Calgary debates with Stockwell Day—law professor Bruce Pardy makes plain his core claim that Canada is structurally broken and Alberta’s only realistic path is independence. Stockwell Day (stay) vs. Bruce Pardy (leave): Alberta should keep fighting inside Canada rather than secede. Two debates over two nights. […]
Pro-independence advocates speak at Alberta and the West Assembly By Jackson Loy, published by Western Standard Presenting to the Alberta and the West Assembly over the weekend, Queen’s law professor Bruce Pardy declared Canada is broken because governments run everything — and they cannot be stopped: “Canada has become a managerial society; it is planned, […]
Stockwell Day (stay) vs. Bruce Pardy (leave): Alberta should keep fighting inside Canada rather than secede. Two debates: filmed live in Edmonton on Thursday, September 17, and in Calgary on Friday, September 18. Moderated by Jason Lavigne. Each speaker received 30 minutes under chess-clock rules, followed by rebuttals, cross-examination, and audience Q&A. Stockwell Day (Stay) […]
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 […]
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 […]