The Pardy School of Law

How the law works, and how it doesn’t.

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The WHO’s managerial gambit

The WHO’s proposed new international pandemic agreement and amendments to International Health Regulations will make the next public health emergency worse. Not because they override sovereignty, but because they will protect domestic authorities from responsibility.

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Muzzled but not gagged

Free speech advocates speak out at ‘Canada’s Free Speech Crisis’ event on topics ranging from the Freedom Convoy protest to the ongoing debate surrounding biological sex.

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Jordan Peterson against the tyranny of the administrative state

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.

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Anatomy 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.

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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