By Peter Shawn Taylor, published by C2C Journal Read the original article at the publisher’s website here. Summarized by Probe Media C2C editor Peter Shawn Taylor highlights the alarming lack of constitutional protection for property rights in Canada, which sets it apart from most modern democracies. Taylor argues the absence of property rights in the […]
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By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Epoch Times In November 2024, a court released seven companies from an aboriginal land claim in New Brunswick. Wolastoqey Nation had filed a legal action seeking a declaration of aboriginal title over more than half the province. The seven companies, named as defendants, own most of the land […]
The Ezra Levant Show: Professor Bruce Pardy discusses his recent Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy paper on equality before the law in Canada. Offering seats on post-secondary campuses or employment on the basis of skin colour is an indication of the extent to which Canadian courts have redefined the equality clause in the Constitution to […]
The Ezra Levant Show: Professor Bruce Pardy describes calls for reparations in Canada “political nonsense”. Punishing people for things they did not do, and rewarding people for damages they did not suffer runs contrary to the premise of how liability claims are (or were) handled in Canada, he says. In regards to Section 15(2) of […]
By Bruce Pardy | Published by the National Post Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already. The school, which opens next fall at Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and […]
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What are rights?
The community of ideas makes a comeback.
Constitutional adherents, civically responsible citizens, conservative democrats, concerned parents fearful for their children, honest lawyers, and physicians — the ore of the nation — have become social pariahs.
Governments discriminate all the time, Pardy says, and the effectiveness of the Charter is limited.
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.
“Even in the best of times, we’re a heartbeat away from tyranny. Democracy is one of the most fragile concepts in the world. That’s why most of the world doesn’t have democracy…. Democracy may be fragile, but we shall defend it.”