The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
We approach state singularity
We are approaching the moment when state and society become indistinguishable, and legal norms and expectations irrelevant. How do we escape?
Rise of the all-powerful administrative state heralded Canada's internet crackdown
Bill C-63, the Liberal government’s online harms act, would give an overpowered bureaucracy further control over our lives.
Canada’s constitutional mistake
How the rule of law gave way to the managerial state. New from Bruce Pardy.
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau creates blueprint for dystopia in horrific speech bill
Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It’s all in Justin Trudeau’s “Online Harms Act,” a true “threat to democracy.”
Experts warn that Trudeau insists on approving "the most totalitarian bill in the West"
Psychologists, law professors and legislators denounce C-63 as an “attack on the very idea of freedom of expression.”
Jordan Peterson, Canadian lawyer warn of ‘totalitarian’ impact of Trudeau’s ‘Online Harms’ bill
Bruce Pardy and Konstantin Kisin join Jordan Peterson to unpack Bill C-63, or as Jordan describes it: “the most totalitarian Western bill I’ve ever seen by quite a large margin and in multiple dimensions.”
‘When science is censored’: new film looks at the fallout of public health lockdown orders
An investigative film premiering in May looks at how decisions led to lockdown during Covid, and to the coverup of the origin of the virus.
Our rotten, rotting universities
The Dissident Herd of Cats is an indication of the absolute and utter rot of the universities.
Withdrawal of BC’s proposed Land Act changes is a triumph of democracy and common sense
This is only the latest episode in the feckless and invertebrate failure of our governments to produce and enact a serious plan to address legitimate grievances of the indigenous people.
No taxation without representation? Canadian judges aren't buying that
Despite our own long tradition of “no taxation without representation,” courts in Canada increasingly dictate to governments how to spend taxpayer dollars.
The virtue in liberty
A continuing conversation: the work to defend freedom and whether traditionalists and libertarians can find ways to join together in its defense.
With recent rulings, courts cast aside traditional deference to executive, legislative branches
Are federally appointed judges standing up more to the executive and legislative branches in Ottawa or does a departure from the default of deference depend on whether decisions are progressive or not?
Yes, BC’s Land Act changes give First Nations veto over use of Crown land
Nathan Cullen says there’s no veto. But Cullen has a problem. Any activity that requires your consent is an activity over which you have a veto.
Bruce Pardy: A letter to my ‘TERF’ friends
A double standard that became the ethos of modern social justice turns the tables on the politics of inclusion.
B.C.’s plan to ‘reconcile’ by giving First Nations a veto on land use
UNDRIP-inspired land law reforms are poised to turn B.C. into an untenable host for mining, forestry and much more.
The WHO and phony international law
Agreements will override national sovereignty because their provisions will be binding, say critics. But international law is the art of the Big Pretend. Bruce Pardy investigates.
Canada vs. Jordan Peterson
In his willingness to fight back, Jordan Peterson, a polemicist who is unafraid, represents “a problem for the mob and a danger to a system that relies on cultural repression to advance its agenda.”
Federal Court judge pulls Canada back from the brink
The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink of authoritarian rule, but there’s a wrinkle in the works.
What if? And who to trust?
If the WEF and WHO have their way with censorship, nobody will know what's really going on in the world. Independent journalist Keri Molloy finds confusion abounds over national and individual sovereignty. Professor Pardy sounds the alarm.
Jordan Peterson: Bureaucrats will rue the day they tried to shut me up
The appeal rejected, what now? Jordan Peterson vows: “We’re going to perform that dance on the international stage, with all that light shining on your machinations, and you may well come to rue the day you attempted to take possession of my tongue.”