First, here is what Queen’s University says about Bruce Pardy:
Professor Pardy is a classically liberal legal academic for whom equal application of the law, negative rights, private property, limited government, and separation of powers are foundational to the Canadian and Western legal tradition. A critic of legal progressivism, social justice, and the discretionary administrative state, he has written on a range of pressing legal subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law, including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets, and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He serves as senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, and helped to birth the Runnymede Society, a branch of the Canadian Constitution Foundation. He spearheaded resistance to and ultimate repeal of the Law Society of Ontario’s statement of principles (SOP) policy that required Ontario lawyers to attest to their ideological purity to maintain their licence to practice. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach.
Professor Pardy is presently on leave from Queen’s Law to serve as the Executive Director of Rights Probe, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s leading public policy and governance thinktanks. The work of Rights Probe can be found on its website at https://www.rightsprobe.org/.
Just the fact that he is described as a “classical liberal” right away means he knows wha’t going on.
In his testimony at the National Citizens Inquiry last month, he breaks down what happened to government during Covid in a nice tidy package, showing both how the government restructured itself in an undemocratic way, and the series of logiocal fallacies it used to justify its massively ultra-vires actions against the Canadian public.
The only open question is, did the government restructure itself as an authoritarian and undemocratic organ due to Covid, or did it along with other governments, use Covid to do precisely that.
We think its the latter.
