In the days leading up to the mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.

Canadians can see how harshly Lich has been treated compared to those accused of violent offences.

The CJC plays an important role in maintaining the people’s confidence in the judiciary. That trust is undermined when judges fail to show prudence in commenting on the delicate political issues of the day.

Constitutional adherents, civically responsible citizens, conservative democrats, concerned parents fearful for their children, honest lawyers, and physicians — the ore of the nation — have become social pariahs.

It turns out that progressives were less interested in the principle of free speech than in promoting their own values.

Confidence in the judiciary depends on whether people perceive courts to be genuinely neutral, not merely within a narrow band of progressive consensus.

The Constitution is a deal. If Alberta and Saskatchewan resolved to leave, could anyone blame them?

That green chair doesn’t look quite so comfy anymore.

The Charter’s vagueness allows courts to reign supreme.

Perhaps the issue was bias against the Freedom Convoy.

Governments discriminate all the time, Pardy says, and the effectiveness of the Charter is limited.

Rights Probe Executive Director and Queen’s University law professor, Bruce Pardy, says that law and politics work differently south of the border.

What we have now is a dependent population, economically and psychologically.

The way to protect liberty is to reject the legitimacy of the managerial state.

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.