Freethinkers and free speech enthusiasts gathered in Toronto to share their thoughts on the current landscape of thought policing in Canada and what free speech truly means in a free and democratic nation.

Alberta is “on good ground constitutionally”. ~ Bruce Pardy

There’s an elephant in the room but not everyone sees it.

“Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, every person has a right to equal treatment without discrimination. However, the Code has a loophole for ‘special programs,’ which discriminate in favour of the “correct” groups.”

No debate could have demonstrated better the West’s crisis of liberalism than the Munk debate on the crisis of liberalism.

Professional cartels benefit the bullies who run them.

The Trudeau government appears determined to block resource development.

Legal experts like Bruce Pardy argue that the government’s directive on campus free speech “contains the right ideas, but takes the wrong approach.”

The masses, a herd of sheep and ostriches, follow at their own risk.

Bruce Pardy: Our modern system of government has moved. Moved away from the rule of law back towards rule by executive fiat. Judicial deference grants control not to a monarch but to a professional managerial class. That deference empowers the tyranny of the administrative state.

Unlike COVID, which transformed society with a fury, the administrative state triumphed slowly over many decades. Its exact origins and timing are matters of debate. Bruce Pardy examines the Anatomy of the Administrative State in a chapter for the new book release, Canary in a COVID World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World.

Bruce Pardy challenges the belief that a technocratic government will benefit society. “If the failure is so obvious during COVID, what makes you think that they'd be any good at very many other things?”

What makes our decade different, says Bruce Pardy, is that legislators, bureaucrats, and the judiciary “agree in the way we should proceed” and view civil liberties as “just getting in the way.”

Bruce Pardy: Critical theory, postmodernism, social justice and critical race theory have morphed into the dominant ideology.

The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but cultural self-hate. No coup is more effective than one committed by a people against itself.

Courts, unlike legislatures, do not have an official opposition. But the 57-year-old Justice Brown was the outspoken leader of the Supreme Court’s unofficial opposition.

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.

The Supreme Court has allowed the philosophy of John Rawls to determine the meaning of ‘fundamental justice’.

The countries of the West are teeming with Chinese spies, and Canada is no exception. But other countries have done something about it.

The “culture war” has been going on within Canadian institutions for a long time. Equity revolutionaries have waged it in a familiar pattern and the Law Society of Ontario is a textbook case.