The Pardy School of Law

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What they’re saying an independent Alberta would look like

Law professor Bruce Pardy supports the idea that independence would mean rejecting the existing constitutional order, including treaty and Aboriginal rights, and offers a perspective that independence could provide an opportunity to address outdated concepts.

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Parental rights or state might?

Prof. Bruce Pardy at Fundamental Truths: What’s the principle that distinguishes a parent signing off on a leg amputation from refusing a vaccine—and the state forcing it?

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Confronting state power

Law should not enforce unprovable moral propositions that ignore society’s diversity. Instead, it should prevent harm while allowing everyone to pursue their own truths—without coercion. [A presentation by Prof. Bruce Pardy].

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The referendum goose could still be cooked

Bruce Pardy: Bill 14 removed one obstacle but installed a new gatekeeper. Is this real progress for Alberta sovereignty — or a clever trap to defuse the movement without ever letting it succeed?

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Time for true autonomy

Professor Bruce Pardy exposes how governments evaded judicial scrutiny during COVID by rendering challenges moot, eroding bodily autonomy and the rule of law. His bold vision for an independent Alberta flips the script: time for true autonomy over endless state overreach.

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Notwithstanding the Charter, neither legislatures nor courts protect individual liberties in Canada

In a striking contradiction, the federal government is urging the Supreme Court to limit the use of the Charter’s “notwithstanding clause” while simultaneously introducing the “Combatting Hate Act,” which threatens free speech without invoking this very clause. Thus, raising the critical question: in Canada, who truly safeguards individual liberties?

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To dislike but not intensely so

Professor Bruce Pardy explores the paradox that is Bill C-9, the “Combatting Hate Act,” in his testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

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Freedom or Virtue?

Professor Bruce Pardy explains why a truly free society is risky — and why that risk is necessary for genuine virtue and responsibility.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
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