Shaun Newman podcast: Guests Caylan Ford, founder of the Alberta Classical Academy, and law professor Bruce Pardy discuss the implications of the notwithstanding clause in Canadian law, with particular context to the recent teacher strikes in Alberta. Prof. Pardy argues the Alberta government is justified in using the clause—a legitimate part of the Canadian Charter […]
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Shaun Newman Podcast: In this heated discussion on Alberta’s potential secession from Canada, legal scholar Prof. Bruce Pardy (Queen’s University) and Indigenous rights lawyer Jeff Wrath (Alberta Prosperity Project co-founder) clash over the future of Indigenous treaty rights in an independent Alberta. Wrath dismisses Prof. Pardy’s argument to abolish collective rights as legally reckless and […]
Shaun Newman Podcast Host Shaun Newman examines the prorogation of the Canadian Parliament with guests Professor Bruce Pardy and James Manson (one of the lead Council lawyers in the court challenge to Justin Trudeau’s move to suspend Parliament). The conversation takes flight from a tweet Prof. Pardy posted on the prorogation decision earlier in the […]
Episode 581: Bruce Pardy drops by the Shaun Newman Podcast to discuss the B.C. government plans to share management of Crown land with First Nations. A proposed amendment by the government to the B.C. Land Act to incorporate agreements with Indigenous governing bodies will permit First Nations veto over how most of B.C. is used. […]
Shaun Newman Podcast Bruce is the executive director of Rights Probe (https://www.rightsprobe.org/) and professor of law at Queen’s University. A critic of legal progressivism and the expansive managerial state, he has written on a range of subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law. He has taught at law schools in […]