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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Privacy

Bruce Pardy: Grey Matter

Grey Matter: Canada’s Legal System Dysfunctional? | Bruce Pardy Part One: Law professor and executive director of Rights Probe, Bruce Pardy, reveals why a Canadian court wants access to your health records. What does this mean for your privacy? Are we still protected by the law or is the opposite happening? Bruce and host of […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns

What is the responsibility of the legal system and is it working?

From tyrant kings to the administrative state: are we repeating history by vesting too much power in a centralized bureaucracy? What are the competing visions for how the law works and who benefits from the vision that rules Canada’s legal system today? What happened to the concept of law as a set of guardrails? David […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

The state of law in Canada

Individual autonomy – the crowning achievement of Western legal systems – is now at risk. The law is moving from individualist to collectivist; from blind justice to social justice; from equality of treatment to equality of outcome; from capitalist to statist; from economic competition to political conformity; and from neutral adjudication to judicial activism. The […]