The Pardy School of Law

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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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National security priorities for the next government

At a Macdonald-Laurier Institute panel, Prof. Bruce Pardy highlighted Canada’s alarming ideological shift, citing a 2022 column that branded peaceful trucker protests as “sedition”. The author will come as a surprise to some and for others, not at all.

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An independent Alberta must have a constitution

Columnist and activist Cory Morgan reviews Prof. Bruce Pardy’s framework for a new Alberta constitution that challenges Albertans to transcend flawed systems like Westminster, in favour of a “fantastic” architecture for freedom that replaces bureaucratic inertia with innovation and elevates sovereignty over state overreach.

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Words had to change their meanings

Athenian historian Thucydides warned of words losing meaning in societal collapse. Modern parallels abound: ‘Racism’ redefined, ‘free speech’ weaponized.

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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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