Anti-racism “means discriminating on the basis of race,” while “non-racism is the belief that race does not matter—that people should be treated equally under the law as human beings regardless of their race.”
Category: Law with Bruce Pardy
This makes Bill C-16 looks like child’s play.
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.
In this Freedom Feature conversation, law professor Bruce Pardy, Executive Director of Rights Probe, comments on the underlying ideas made apparent in the loss of freedoms during the pandemic. Bruce and Barry discuss a range of issues from self-censorship and conformity to the legacy of the Charter. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn declared:“Let the lie come into the world, let […]
Who has charge of your body? There’s only one answer.
“That’s not the way banking should work in a free and democratic country.” ~ Bruce Pardy
“The rule of law is a fundamental principle of our constitutional order and requires that the government be bound by the law. It appears that the government has enacted an Emergency Declaration where it has not met the strict criteria permitting it to do so.”
“If this invocation of the Emergencies Act is valid, then governments have the power to declare emergencies and crush any peaceful protest, any dissent, that threatens their political fortunes and ideology, and that’s not the kind of country we want to live in,” Bruce Pardy, law professor and executive director of Rights Probe.
Late last month former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford launched a lawsuit to challenge the federal proof-of-Covid-19-vaccine requirement for air travel. Peckford, the last surviving political architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, said that governments are ignoring the Charter with their pandemic rules and creating a constitutional crisis. If anything, that understates the trouble Canada is in. Bruce Pardy provides a bracing evaluation of how the Charter actually operates in an era of expansive government and imaginative jurists.
The Opinion section of The Globe and Mail devotes an unprecedented 6,500 words to this must-read analysis by Norman Doidge as he explores the master narrative that has shaped our lives for the past two years.