Leaders on the Frontier, hosted by David Leis, with guests Professor Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe, Josh Dehaas of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and Ray McGinnis (author of Unjustified). The panel examines the implications of the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold a two-year ruling that found the Trudeau government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies […]
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By Bruce Pardy | Published by the Brownstone Institute The Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful. The Trucker Convoy did not constitute a national emergency. So said a judge of the Federal Court on Tuesday. The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink of authoritarian rule. The Federal Court […]
A judge has ruled that Justin Trudeau’s trucker crackdown was illegal. Bruce Pardy called the decision “well-reasoned,” adding: “We still have some kind of rule of law in this country.” By Rupa Subramanya | Published by The Free Press Back in 2022, the battle between Justin Trudeau and Canada’s truckers over vaccine mandates came to […]
Andrew Lawton devotes the latter part of his show (at the 51.36 mark) for a look into the Commission’s findings with Bruce Pardy, who has maintained from the outset there was no legal basis for the invocation of the Emergencies Act. The point of the Commission’s inquiry, he says, is to perform a “ritual” with […]
What happened to society’s broad agreement about government overreach, the legal definition of certain words and a political landscape that once included a middle ground? In this podcast episode of “Grey Matter,” constitutional lawyer Leighton Grey and lawyer Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe discuss the obvious divide in our political system and how villainizing each […]
Only in a country with fragile, hysterical leadership could the trucker convoy be regarded as an emergency justifying the infringement of civil liberties. Bruce Pardy for Inside Policy.
The CJC plays an important role in maintaining the people’s confidence in the judiciary. That trust is undermined when judges fail to show prudence in commenting on the delicate political issues of the day.
Confidence in the judiciary depends on whether people perceive courts to be genuinely neutral, not merely within a narrow band of progressive consensus.
During the ten days that the Emergencies Act was in force, the banks went out of their way to serve Ottawa’s best interests. And in doing so turned their backs on those very customers they claim to love so much. That green chair doesn’t look quite so comfy anymore.
Perhaps the issue was bias against the Freedom Convoy.