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, […]
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The Candice Malcolm Show: Pledging to uphold existing Indigenous treaty rights in an independent Alberta is a mistake, argues Prof. Bruce Pardy. Maintaining group-specific rights, he says, contradicts the principle of “blind justice”—a legal framework that treats all citizens as equal regardless of ancestry. A recent article by the professor contends that while Canada’s constitution […]