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Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies?

By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Brownstone Institute | Included in The Epoch Times US Edition There’s an elephant in the room, the speaker declared. He was right. I was at a gathering, as I often am, of people who aspire to rescue their countries from descending into woke, collectivist hell. But the attendees […]

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The Munk debate on the crisis of liberalism

By Bruce Pardy | Published by Brownstone Institute On Friday, George Will squared off against Sohrab Ahmari in the Munk debate on “the crisis of liberalism.” But the crisis didn’t come up.  Will is a prominent conservative commentator who writes for the Washington Post. Ahmari is an author, editor, and publisher who has advocated for […]

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Living in Leviathan

Liberty Dispatch | September 12, 2023 Law professor Bruce Pardy joins hosts Andrew DeBartolo and Matthew Hallick to discuss his recent article published by the Brownstone Institute, “The Anatomy of the Administrative State.” What is it? And how does it undermine principles of freedom and self-governance? How can we fight back? Tune in! Background Reading: […]

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Tune in and don’t tune out

The Hrvoje Moric Show: Bruce Pardy joins the conversation at the 19:10 mark to discuss the age of democracy and to consider the possibility that it may be ending. As we bear witness, the cornerstones of society – the legislature, courts and state – have signed over their power to a technocratic, bureaucratic machinery that […]

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‘Shifting Legal Ground’: Law professor weighs in on technocracy entrenched in government

By Isaac Teo and Jan Jekielek | Published by The Epoch Times Technocracy, a form of governance where decision-making is left to a group of technical experts, has become deeply entrenched in governments globally and is doing more harm than good for the people, according to law professor Bruce Pardy. “It’s the crowning achievement so […]

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Selective punishment

The Triumph of the Administrative State: A wide-ranging discussion with Bruce Pardy and Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders [see video] focused on the Canadian experience. The administrative state succeeded beyond its wildest dreams thanks to the rupture of COVID, when Canada’s nanny state became extreme and people succumbed in ways they would not have […]

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NCI panel says court failures suggest foreboding future

An online panel of lawyers organized by the National Citizens Inquiry on COVID-19 said the courts have failed to uphold Canadian rights since the pandemic began and a bleak future awaits. Lawyer Shawn Buckley described the Canadian experience as “the largest intrusion of government overreach into our personal lives, even in wartime,” without the courts […]

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How Canada’s secular religion of cultural self-hate took hold

By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in human affairs produced the scientific method and later the Industrial Revolution. Add in the rule of law, individual liberty, private property and capitalism, and you have the basic […]

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Legal canons and social fables: The law in Canada has never been perfect but now it is losing its way

Bruce Pardy surveys the descent of Canada’s legal system into Alice-in-Wonderland surrealism, a state that poses dangers to virtually every Canadian and to the future of the rule of law itself. By Bruce Pardy, published by C2C Journal To hold themselves together, societies tell themselves stories. People are honest; marriages are faithful; parents are devoted […]

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Law Society rebellion has been vanquished. Long live the equity revolution!

By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post It was a full sweep. On Monday, establishment candidates defeated a slate of reformers to win all 45 lawyer and paralegal seats on the board of the Ontario Law Society. Four years earlier, the reformers won 22 seats, just enough to repeal a “Statement of Principles” (SOP) […]