Anti-racism “means discriminating on the basis of race,” while “non-racism is the belief that race does not matter—that people should be treated equally under the law as human beings regardless of their race.” ~ Bruce Pardy

“That’s not the way banking should work in a free and democratic country.” ~ Bruce Pardy

“The rule of law is a fundamental principle of our constitutional order and requires that the government be bound by the law. It appears that the government has enacted an Emergency Declaration where it has not met the strict criteria permitting it to do so.”

“I never thought I’d see the day when law enforcement officers would be arresting citizens for the crime of exercising their charter rights and freedoms to free assembly and free speech.”

“If this invocation of the Emergencies Act is valid, then governments have the power to declare emergencies and crush any peaceful protest, any dissent, that threatens their political fortunes and ideology, and that’s not the kind of country we want to live in.” ~ Bruce Pardy, law professor and executive director of Rights Probe.

Bruce Pardy provides a bracing evaluation of how the Charter actually operates in an era of expansive government and imaginative jurists.

As for the already vaccinated, making boosters mandatory would abandon any pretence of persuasion.

COVID-19 is here to stay. Therefore, COVID is done. Either mild Omicron is the end of COVID madness, or there is no off-ramp. The panic-demic must finish or we will be doing this forever.

There are still people who value civil liberties in this country.

Wokeness, or social justice as it is also known, is an anti-Western ideology and is now Canada’s secular religion.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children—or in this case, what it does to them. ~ German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Western legal tradition has protected individual autonomy better than any other legal system in history. The problem is that for decades that tradition, and the culture from whence it came, have slowly been eroding.

In Canada, some are apt to believe that vaccine mandates surely must contravene the charter. But has a specific charter right been breached? Or is it just the charter’s vibe?

Judges lack training in everything but the law, which is not their weakness but their strength. On COVID, as on any other contentious subject, a little learning outside the courtroom is exactly what should not occur.

Left-leaning academics once championed ideological diversity. Now that they have captured the university, viewpoint diversity is perceived as dangerous.

Western liberal democracies, especially Canada, have descended into authoritarianism. COVID appears to be the reason, but this transformation has long been underway.

The Cold War wasn’t merely a conflict between nations but also a contest between competing political ideologies. And this time, the socialists are winning.

Kooky academic theories are among the biggest threats to freedom, prosperity and rationality.

The rule of law gets in the way of governments and officials crafting solutions to problems they perceive as important. That is not its downside but its purpose.