June 19, 2025: In his address to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) panel discussion on the rise of antisemitism and ideological extremism in Canada and the West, professor Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe cited a February 2022 column on the portrayal of the peaceful trucker convoy protest as “seditionists and terrorists”. The author of that piece […]
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Shaun Newman Podcast: Prof. Bruce Pardy continues the conversation he sparked earlier in the month when he proposed a hypothetical independent Alberta should also separate itself from special status for Aboriginal people, arguing Aboriginal rights undermine the principle of legal equality by granting race-based privileges. This discussion walks further out to explore tensions between Canada’s […]
By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Brownstone Institute | First published by The Epoch Times Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, […]
The Real Citizen Podcast: Canada is a country in crisis that long predates Donald Trump’s provocations. The Trump disruption, however, has ignited fundamental conversations that are overdue and immensely valuable. For example, when we’re not defining ourselves in opposition to America, who are we? What does “Canadian” mean? Prof. Bruce Pardy breaks down what has […]
The Liberty Exchange: In conversation with Professor Bruce Pardy, host Jonathan Fortier examines the erosion of key libertarian principles through the lens of the pandemic experience. Prof. Pardy credits the one upside of Covid-19 as the moment when the coercive role of the administrative state finally revealed itself. That rupture marked a turning point for […]
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Making Sense of the Political Ecosystem Nadine Ness, founder of Saskatchewan’s Unified Grassroots, a group concerned with civil liberties formed during Covid, invites Bruce Pardy, a professor of law at Queen’s University and the executive director of Rights Probe, to explain changes in the political ecosystem that her group [and many of us] have grappled […]
There is no such thing as centralization of power for good. This presentation, based on an earlier piece by Professor Bruce Pardy for The Brownstone Institute, warns of an approaching “State Singularity,” where the state and society become indistinguishable, and legal norms lose relevance. At this point, the government justifies its actions under various social causes, expanding its […]
By Bruce Pardy | The Epoch Times Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, but House of Commons staff must be fingerprinted. Serious […]
By Bruce Pardy | Published by C2C Journal | Republished by Brownstone Institute Summary It is people who make laws. People enforce laws. People apply laws to cases. It can’t be any other way. How to have the rule of law without the rule of persons? Most Canadians surely believe their society is governed by […]
Trish Wood | On the Fringe Guest: Bruce Pardy Many of us think we are still living in a Western liberal democracy with “a fairly open economy” in a society where “there are certain values that we more or less hold to be true,” but, says law professor Bruce Pardy, “in many respects, that world […]