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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
“People don’t have to fix it but if they could just not be a part of it.”
At the end of the long Covid day, what did we all catch? A managerial state.