October 1, 2024
Professor of Law at Queen's University and Executive Director of Rights Probe
Bruce Pardy
Rise of the all-powerful administrative state
In Canada, the administrative state has become ubiquitous. It controls our lives in every conceivable way. It supervises speech, employment, bank accounts, and media. It controls property use, energy, industry, and commerce. It indoctrinates our children. It dictates our medical care. It controls the money supply, the interest rate and the terms of credit. It tracks, directs, incentivizes, censors, punishes, redistributes, subsidizes, taxes, licenses and inspects. Instead of a country governed by the rule of law, we are now subject to rule-by-law. Over time, we have become more like China than China has become like us. How did this happen? A long time ago, we made a constitutional mistake.
Speaker: Bruce Pardy, Professor of Law, Queens University, and Executive Director of Rights Probe
Webinar organized by the Association of Professional Economists of British Columbia
Professor of Law at Queen's University and Executive Director of Rights Probe
Bruce Pardy
Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. Bruce is a lawyer, academic, columnist, and outspoken critic of the illiberal managerial state. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation in Toronto, and served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. He writes for the National Post, Epoch Times, and the Brownstone Institute, among others, and serves as senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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