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Law with Bruce Pardy

What Bills C-8 and C-9 mean for your freedom of expression

A panel discussion held by the Free Speech Union of Canada (FSU) on November 4, 2025, with FSU directors Prof. Bruce Pardy, Lisa Bildy, and Hannah Park Roche. On the table: Bill C-9 and its potential to create a “thought police” scenario, where citizens mired in a legal minefield run the risk of severe consequences […]

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How Britain set the stage for Canada’s chilling crackdown on dissent

By Anna Farrow | Published by the Conservative Women’s Organization In recent years, Britain and Canada have become each other’s object lesson in how shoddy lawcraft can lead to dystopian outcomes. As the Leadbeater bill was being debated in Westminster last November, Canada was the spectre of an out-of-control euthanasia regime that haunted the room. […]

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Law with Bruce Pardy

One technocracy under hate speech

Brave New Normal with host Jason James: In a compelling and wide-ranging discussion, law professor Bruce Pardy delves into the Canadian government’s increasing tendency to manage society through a series of new bills—C-2, C-5, C-8, C-9, and C-12—legislation that reflects a broader philosophy of state control, placing power in the hands of bureaucrats, officials, and […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

To dislike but not intensely so

By Probe Media In a genuinely free country, individuals have the right to hate and express that hatred openly, a fundamental aspect of true freedom that should not be suppressed, argues law professor Bruce Pardy in his testimony on Oct. 23 to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST) in […]