Western students standing up for themselves:

Bet you didn’t think they would take your house. Are we getting the idea now? This is what you get when the law treats people as “distinct peoples”.

More people need to say this out loud. DEI is racist. It treats people differently according to their race. It imposes the bigotry of low expectations.

The Full Monty: mandatory medical treatments, enhanced police powers, state-sponsored media, financial surveillance, asset seizure, crypto supervision, licence suspensions. Plain as day for anyone to see.

Canadian hand-wringing about how tariffs hurt both sides is pretty rich coming from a country that has tariff-like trade restrictions between its own provinces.

One of the best pitches I’ve seen for becoming the 51st state.

Alberta Court finds WestJet wrongfully terminated unvaxxed employee Yesterday the Alberta Court of Justice awarded severance to a former WestJet employee fired because she declined to take the COVID vaccine. This decision may be the first in Canada to award severance to a non-unionized employee for being terminated (rather than being placed on indefinite leave) for refusing the vax. (If you are aware of others, please note in the replies.) Duong Yee worked for WestJet for eleven years. Before she was fired, she applied to be exempted from WestJet’s mandatory COVID vaccination policy on religious grounds. Employers can terminate employees (if they are not part of a union, which is a different story) either for cause or without cause. But if they terminate without cause, employees are entitled either to notice or to severance in lieu of notice. In this case, WestJet claimed to have fired Yee for cause, for violating its vaccination policy. Employers carry the onus of proving just cause. While the court did not find WestJet’s vaccination policy to be unreasonable, it found the company’s treatment of Yee’s application for exemption to be deficient. Yee said that taking the vaccine would have betrayed her Christian faith. “Jesus is my healer,” she wrote, “I do not rely on the use of vaccinations or medicines created artificially in order to prevent sickness. Jesus speaks of seeking out a doctor when one is sick, not well. I have no need of a vaccine in order to maintain my health.” The application form asked Yee if she had concerns about the safety of the vaccine. Yee said yes. “No long term safety has been completed to ensure they are safe and effective. mRNA is a new technology and side effects completely unknown -Never been licensed for human use when 0 long term studies have been competed [sic] to ensure they are safe and effective, they are still in phase 3 experiment that will not be completed until trial ends late 2022.” But because she expressed concerns about safety, WestJet rejected her application for an exemption. “You have written in your application form that you consider the vaccine unsafe. It is therefore reasonable to consider that you are philosophically/personally opposed to mandatory vaccine, which means you are seeking accommodation for secular reasons, not religious.” The Court found that WestJet’s refusal to grant the Plaintiff an exemption, even though it accepted the sincerity of her religious beliefs, was not reasonable. “The Defendant's evidence did not explain why the Plaintiff s information was insufficient, why her safety concerns overrode her religious objections or what she could have done to qualify for an exemption.” But the most intriguing aspect of the decision was the Court’s finding that Yee’s termination was unjustified even absent the request for religious accommodation. At the time of her dismissal, Yee had already been working at home for months. There was no evidence that her refusal to vaccinate would have affected the operation of her department or WestJet’s other employees. The Court concluded that “dismissal for cause was not a proportional response even if the Plaintiff should not have been granted a religious exemption.” The Court awarded Yee 11 months of severance. Note that even when employers are found to have wrongfully terminated a non-unionized employee, reinstatement is not usually one of the possible remedies. Congratulations to the plaintiff and her lawyer @JodyWells84. The decision is not yet posted on CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute database.

On Monday, use of the Emergencies Act was vital to the welfare of the nation. On Wednesday, they ran away from it as fast as they could. Nothing changed between Monday and Wednesday except the politics.

Moore has now destroyed the case for vaccine mandates, especially for young people, at least in Ontario. Everything he says has been true from the start, but only now being said out loud by a public health official. Informed consent, anyone?

Ontario doesn't have empty bedrooms. People who own houses have empty bedrooms. Governments and policy wonks regard your property as part of their inventory.

The political landscape is not left vs right. There are three main persuasions, not two. Collectivist left (progressives and socialists) vs Collectivist right (conservatives) vs Individualists (classical liberals and libertarians)

Truckers showing how it's done. "People who oppose government mandates are not the tiny group that the media has tried to make us believe."

Alberta, it’s time.

Today I appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, which was studying how to protect freedom of expression. Here is what I said:

We think that our side won the Cold War. But the campaign continues inside Western countries. And now we are losing. Canada's Cold War: Video by @katewand and William Gervais

FDA takes 108 days to authorize Pfizer vaccine, wants 75 years to release the data.

Leadership from @BresciaUC: Brescia College, an affiliate of Western, appears to be going its own way, refusing to enforce Western's booster mandate and masking requirement.

Appalling attack from @celliottability on the right of physicians to state their own professional medical opinions. Outrageous.

Full text: A declaration of independence for Alberta It’s not really my place. I’m an Ontario boy. Who am I to draft a declaration of independence for Alberta? The answer is, I’m Canadian, and my compromised, complacent country needs shaking up. And perhaps I am Albertan in spirit. If Alberta and other parts of the West resolved to separate from Canada, who could blame them? They could become an independent country or join the United States. I do not claim to represent Alberta’s sentiments, but if I was from Alberta, this is what I would say. ALBERTA DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE We the People of Alberta resolve to leave the Canadian federation of provinces. We will become an independent country or join the United States of America. When one people propose to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, says the American Declaration of Independence, they should set forth the causes which compel them to the separation. Alberta became a province 120 years ago. That was probably inevitable, since Canadian interests already controlled the territory. But for the people of Alberta, it has proven to be a mistake. In 1775, long before there was an Alberta, George Washington wrote to the inhabitants of Canada. He invited them to reject the rule of the British king, and to join the Americans’ quest to be free. "Come then, my Brethren, unite with us in an indissoluble Union, let us run together to the same Goal. We have taken up Arms in Defence of our Liberty, our Property, our Wives, and our Children, we are determined to preserve them, or die. We look forward with Pleasure to that Day not far remote (we hope) when the Inhabitants of America shall have one Sentiment, and the full Enjoyment of the Blessings of a free Government.” The Canadians rebuffed him. They wanted to be subjects of the Crown. Liberty is America’s foundational idea. Canada’s is deference to authority. Canadians are subjects still. Their monarch is now a figurehead, but the Crown is still sovereign. Under the Westminster system of government, one small group of people commands both the legislature and the executive branch of government. They appoint judges to the courts and senators to the upper house of Parliament. Yes, even in 2025, our senators are not elected but appointed. While in power, our prime minister may as well be king. Canada retains the core notion of feudalism. The Crown owns the territory, while people and their property rest beneath its benevolent hand. Canada’s mantra is not “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” but “peace, order, and good government.” Its public authorities tell you what to do. In 2025, another American president has re-opened the door. In spirit, Alberta walked through it long ago. We have liberty in our veins. We too hold these truths to be self-evident: that all individuals are created equal. That we have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That governments exist to secure these rights. That they derive their powers from the consent of the governed. No doubt America has its problems. But over time, it has weathered storms from within and without. Its constitutional architecture has good bones. We respect its separation of powers and its checks and balances. We admire its robust Bill of Rights. We believe in the principle, long abandoned in Canada, of equal protection of the law. We wish to live in a republic, in which the people rule. Canada is not such a country. We have reluctantly concluded that it has no realistic prospect of becoming one. Instead, we find ourselves members of a beleaguered, corrupted, manipulated society. Vested interests and sacred cows make meaningful reform impossible. Canada is a country in retreat, more interested in redistributing wealth than in producing it, more resolved to administer than to build, and more prone to languish than to strive. Its people have traded freedom for the appearance of safety, and competition for the solidarity of victimhood. Its culture punishes risk and rewards conformity. Its elites collaborate with foreign powers and global institutions. They sacrifice the interests of the people to plunder the country of what remains of its prosperity. For a privileged class of “public servants”, Canada has become a grift. In the Canadian federation, Alberta is the younger son who makes the money that keeps the family afloat. Yet his resentful older siblings still push him around at the dinner table. The Canadian government impedes Alberta’s key industries. It undermines Alberta’s constitutional jurisdiction. It taxes the wealth of Alberta’s people and sends it to other parts of the country. A political and corporate aristocracy from Ontario and Quebec controls the Canadian state. They are Laurentians, a central Canadian establishment based in major cities in the St. Lawrence River watershed, including Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. They rebuff our attempts to reform the Canadian federation. They refuse an elected senate with equal representation from each province. They decline to change the Canadian system of "equalization". They permit no measures to dilute their influence or disturb the Laurentian consensus. Remnants of the Old World persist in the New. We have been proud and loyal Canadians. Our country has not reciprocated. We are hardy people: industrious, self-sufficient, resourceful, and innovative. We seek no charity, but only the freedom to make our own way. Canadians from around the country who share our sentiments may wish to move to Alberta to join us in this journey. We will welcome them. They, like us, do not belong in the fiefdom that Canada has become. We reject Canadian deference to authority. We refuse to be subjects any longer. We do not consent. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of liberty, says the American Declaration of Independence, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. Or to depart. At long last, it is time to go.

We reject your expertise, your authority, your judgment, your moral righteousness, your hysteria, your condescension, your hypocrisy, your claim of following “the science”, your bullying, and your use of state force to get your way. Make Public Health Officials Irrelevant Again

Says the guy who introduced speech codes to Ontario universities in the early 1990s. In Ontario, @BobRae48 is the original Big Brother.

Here's the problem: COVID apostles backing down, so as "to preserve public health authority for when it's needed again." Public health officials have failed utterly. Their authority must be taken away. Laws must not be made in backrooms and announced at press conferences.

Dissenters were right at every step: lockdowns, masking, vaccines. Governments and social media companies did their best to make sure they weren't heard. wsj.com/articles/covid-censo…

Judge orders FDA to produce the data submitted by Pfizer to license its COVID-19 vaccine at a rate of 55,000 pages a day instead of the 500 pages a day the FDA had requested. About eight months instead of 75 years. Remains to be seen what gets redacted. sirillp.com/wp-content/uploa…

At TMU's new medical school, some students are more equal than others. Remember that next time you're waiting to see your newly minted doctor. My latest for @nationalpost: nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

In Alberta, 65 percent of UCP voters support leaving Canada, pollster suggests. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…

Human rights tribunal says the quiet part out loud: white people cannot claim discrimination. My latest for @fpcomment: financialpost.com/opinion/on…

A new standard of practice is emerging for Canadian professionals: be woke, be quiet, or be accused of professional misconduct. My latest in @nationalpost @jordanbpeterson, @preta_6, @LDBildy nationalpost.com/opinion/ont…

Canadians' liberties are under siege like never before: my latest in @nationalpost. @LDBildy, @LSolomonTweets, @katewand nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

Yet another illustration of where political power lies in Canada. UNANIMOUS. That means no CPC MP elected in the western provinces voted against it. Not one. Alberta, it’s time.

Obsequious devotion to reconciliation is bringing BC to its knees. The NDP government's Aboriginal land deals are an existential threat to the future of the province. My latest for @nationalpost: nationalpost.com/opinion/eby…

Just posted: the Free North Declaration video. piped.video/watch?v=jl6OKIUn…

It's not really my place. I’m an Ontario boy. I do not claim to represent Alberta’s sentiments. But if I was from Alberta, this is what I would say.

Professional regulators have become ideological. They increasingly seek to supervise political views and expression. In effect, to be progressive is to be neutral and reasonable, while to not be progressive will amount to professional misconduct.

See the narrative turn. See the walk backs. See the lack of science behind policies already in place. See people try to cover their butts.

Invite Alberta to be the 51st state. Others will follow. It’s time.

The Free North Declaration: Civil liberties are under unprecedented attack. Canada is supposed to be a free country governed by the rule of law. Restore it now or risk losing it for good. @LDBildy Read and endorse the declaration: freenorthdeclaration.ca/

Some people may be taking the wrong lesson from the prorogation decision, IMO. The problem is not that the decision is wrong and the court did it anyway. The problem is that the decision is probably, mostly, CORRECT. That is, it is consistent with the jurisprudence and constitution. In other words, the problem is not just that some bad people are corrupting our system. The problem is that THIS IS HOW OUR GOVERNANCE SYSTEM WORKS. Therefore, fixing the problem does not just mean rooting out bad apples. It means overhauling the constitutional architecture of the country. Maybe that's politically impossible for Canada. (Which is one reason I believe Alberta must lead the way out.) But please don't spend your time and energy in the margins shouting at the sky.

U.S. Supreme Court confirms (again) equal protection of the law. Reverse discrimination is discrimination. A member of a "majority" group cannot have a heavier burden than others. But not in Canada, where reverse discrmination has been authorized by the Charter and Supreme Court.

Professional regulators suppress dissenting opinions "to protect preferred narratives that are often so steeped in misinformation and dogma that allowing a bit of evidence or common sense through the cracks would cause the whole edifice to fall." @LDBildy in @nationalpost

Legal rights should not depend on lineage, Indigenous or otherwise. My latest for @financialpost, based upon my earlier Substack piece:

In Canada, truth and reconciliation have morphed into fiction and capitulation. Courts and governments caused BC’s property crisis. They’re not about to fix it. My latest for @nationalpost nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

What happens when Aboriginal title is declared to be a “senior and prior right” to private property.

Did a video on @jordanbpeterson's podcast on the federal travel vax mandate, with @rupasubramanya, applicants @KarlDHarrison and Shaun Rickard and their lawyer Sam Presvelos. The Canadian government had no scientific rationale for their mandate. piped.video/watch?v=zQLMctYO…

See how the meaning of human rights is being twisted. The right of the individual to be free from the tyranny of the mob is giving way to the mob’s sacrifice of the individual in the name of some greater good. That’s the opposite of what human rights were conceived for.

If you believe in free speech except for speech that is hurtful or offensive, then you don’t believe in free speech.

The U.S. is having its problems. But at least it has more robust constitutional protection of free speech. Canada has become America’s cautionary tale.

Last week I appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research, to talk about federal research grants to universities. Some witnesses argued that the system must be reformed away from woke requirements, such as DEI policies. In my view, that’s not enough. This is what I said: Madam Chair, the members of your committee may be familiar with the Big Bang Theory. Not the explosion, the television sitcom. It’s about four scientist nerds who work at a research university. In one episode, they argue with the university president, who says to them, “Let me ask you something. What do you think the business of this university is?” “Science?” one of the science nerds replies. “Money!” the president snorts. In Canada, the business of universities isn’t just money, but government money. The business of Canadian universities, in large part, is to get their hands on as much government money as they can. They have become chronic welfare recipients like the CBC - dependent on government largesse with no prospect of becoming self-sustaining. They are deep black holes into which gobs of money disappear. If you are a young professor today, your university probably doesn’t care so much about your work. It cares more about whether you get federal grants. From federal grants, universities skim a cool chunk off the top. To get the grant, you must pitch research that the granting councils like. Universities have whole departments of administrators dedicated to getting their academics to pitch their research in a way that will please the people holding the purse strings. Federal research money corrupts the intellectual enterprise of universities. My academic colleagues and I are among the many, many Canadians feeding at the public trough. The public sector is 40 percent of this country’s economy. That’s not sustainable. It’s one of the many reasons this country is becoming poor. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Government money always comes with strings. Ideological strings. Political strings. The way to have politically neutral research is not to have government granting agencies. You are studying whether to reform federal research funding. Don’t reform it. Abolish it. Get rid of it. Universities fall under provincial jurisdiction. Please stop interfering. Please stop taking money from truck drivers and cashiers and giving it to elite institutions. Please stop corrupting the intellectual enterprise. Please stop requiring and funding discrimination against white people, Asian people, and men. Please stop dictating how research is done and by whom. Please get federal money out of the business of Canadian universities. Video of my opening statement available at: brucepardy.substack.com/p/ge…

Not at first. But soon most will use digital. Then you'll have to apply for plastic. Then plastic will be phased out ("too expensive and not practical"). Digital papers will be required by default. They can keep track of where you go - and cancel it if you've been a bad boy.

"Universities mandating masks on campus at this point is silly and mandating vaccine boosters is unethical." torontosun.com/opinion/colum…

This doesn't make sense. If you keep all these things, then Alberta is not independent ("sovereign"). Separation is yes or no, not one foot in and one foot out. An independent Alberta would not be part of Canada.

Canada is the sick canary in the coal mine.

Pre-liberal: Truth is mystical. The Church defines the truth. Liberal: Truth is knowable through observation. Individuals are free to determine the truth. Post-liberal: Truth is subjective. Elites (with the authority of the state) define the truth. In each case, the first statement is an epistemological claim and the second is a political claim. And in each case, the second does not necessariy follow from the first. But their adherents seem to believe that it does.

Now we have courts that openly advocate political views. I’m sure the Supreme Court supports diversity of opinion, as long as it’s progressive.

Accurate take from @ezralevant

Full text: In an independent Alberta, Aboriginal rights should not exist Alberta Premier Danielle Smith recently said that an independent Alberta would honour Aboriginal rights. She’s not alone. Some separation advocates have suggested the same. Treaties would be recognized and honoured. Canadian constitutional rights for Aboriginal peoples would be preserved. Special status would continue. It would be the new country’s first big mistake. In a free Alberta, Aboriginal rights should not exist. Instead, reserve lands in Alberta should be divided into lots and transferred to individual Indigenous people, creating for them the same property rights and opportunities as everybody else. Special status for Aboriginal people is deeply ingrained in Canadian culture and enshrined in the Constitution. Aboriginal rights are widely regarded as the natural and proper order of things. But they are the opposite. Invasion, migration, and mixing is the history of humanity. The Romans invaded the British Isles in 55 BC. They conquered the place about 100 years later, on their second try. By 500 AD, Saxons had established themselves as the dominant power. In 1066, the Normans overthrew the Saxon kingdom. Today, British law does not have different rights for descendants of Romans, Saxons and Normans. The people are British. It wouldn’t have seemed that way in 1066. When aliens force their way into a territory, the inhabitants understandably resist. They try to preserve the memory that the place belongs to them. But over centuries, things change. People mix, culturally and genetically. Descendants of inhabitants and invaders marry and procreate. Their offspring do the same. More people from other, different places arrive and mix too. Everyone born there is native to the place. The culture is neither what existed before the invasion, nor the culture the invaders brought with them. No one alive remembers either. The culture in which they live is a distinctive third thing. Once upon a time, legal rights depended on who your parents were. The ruler was the son of the ruler before him. If your parents were serfs, you were a serf too. Lineage was destiny. But like the culture, the law evolved. Eventually, everyone got the vote and the right to run for office. Everyone could own property and was free to buy and sell it. Everyone could marry who they chose, and divorce as they saw fit. But in Canada, the old idea has been reconstituted as a progressive imperative. Under the Canadian Constitution, the legally privileged group is Aboriginal, not European. Indigenous people have the same legal rights as any other Canadian citizen. But they also have rights no one else may claim. Depending on their lineage and group affiliations, they may have treaty rights. They may be entitled to tax exemptions. They may receive exclusive benefits. They may claim positions on bodies and in institutions that are reserved only for them. They may be entitled to procedures and considerations in criminal sentencing that no one else receives. Their group may be granted Aboriginal title on land from which other Canadians are excluded. As lawyer Peter Best has written, “Our new Canadians, a great many of whom have immigrated from South Asia where the odious caste system was and remains prevalent, must be upset and bewildered to see a major element of the caste system – special, hereditary rights possessed by one racial group to the exclusion of all others – becoming further entrenched in the Canadian legal and social fabric.” This special status has not operated to the benefit of most Aboriginal people. But it has for their elites, who administer the substantial largesse that flows from government coffers. Aboriginal property is a group right controlled by its leaders. Individual Indigenous people do not own plots of land on reserves or on lands subject to Aboriginal title. Some Aboriginal communities consist of ‘poor Indians and rich Chiefs’. Dependency endures because governments and many Indigenous leaders want it that way. Former Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson, among others, has argued that persistently poor social conditions experienced by many Indigenous people can be traced to a thriving “Aboriginal industry”, consisting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous institutions and individuals – chiefs, leaders, consultants, managers, bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers and others – who have a vested interest in the status quo. In Alberta, support for separation is growing. Separation doesn’t mean merely leaving the country but rejecting its established order. A new Alberta should abandon the Canadian Constitution. Alberta could have its own constitional rights. But Canadian constitutional rights, including Aboriginal rights, would not exist. But what about treaties? Making contracts between peoples that bind descendants until the end of time is absurd. Moreover, Indian treaties were agreements with the Crown. In an Alberta republic, the Crown would have no status, and neither would its deals. To manage the transition, reserve lands should be chopped up into lots. Title to those lots should be granted in fee simple, the highest form of private property in the common law system, to individual members of the group. They could then do with their property as they saw fit, like everybody else. A new Alberta should reject the idea that legal rights depend on lineage. In a free country, laws apply not to distinctive peoples, but to people.

In Ontario, the RATE of infection for vaccinated now higher than for unvaccinated.

Healthy infants are more likely to be hit by lightning than to die from COVID. It’s not their job to “keep communities safe” (which is nonsense anyway). Why give them the risks of an unnecessary therapeutic?

Two ways to make sure you use pharma products: (1) mandate them (2) eliminate the alternatives Health Canada to target natural health products, companies and practitioners.

Many Canadians detest the equity agenda: the bullying, moral righteousness and intolerance; the racism disguised as anti-racism; the EDI commissars. They dissent in whispers behind closed doors. My latest for @nationalpost: nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

CUPE and the Ontario Federation of Labour position themselves as the opponents of parents. I wonder how many of their rank-and-file members agree.

But in Canada, The Science is different.

Liberal MP explains that the government had to indemnify pharma companies because there wasn’t time to test the vaccines in the normal way and the companies didn’t know if they were safe.

The managerial state personified: Government projects, government resources, government priorities, government criteria. Nothing happens without the blessings of the state.

Liberals. Real ones. The ones who believe in liberty.

Big Canadian companies became cheerleaders for the climate regime. Now they have been dumped at the curb. Their Faustian bargain comes home to roost. My latest in @nationalpost nationalpost.com/opinion/cor…

Keep it simple, Alberta. One step at a time. Don't look for certainty too many steps ahead. Are there enough Albertans who believe that their future no longer lies within the alien country that Canada has become?

Alberta could be the catalyst for a new Canadian era. People will say it's a long shot. If your best shot is a long shot, it's still the shot to take.

And Canada has likewise always been “net zero”. Even if you believe in anthropogenic climate change, there is no rationale for this country to have emission reduction targets of any kind.

By freeing Tamara Lich and slapping down the Crown’s zealous determination to punish her before her trial has been held, the Superior Court has helped to restore confidence in the rule of law. My latest for @EpochOpinion: theepochtimes.com/by-freeing…

The ugly truth: the law is based upon authority. A few months ago, I was on @jordanbpeterson's podcast alongside @KonstantinKisin to discuss how the law has gone off the rails. Jordan asked me why I see things differently. My answer was, I don't know. But I have always been suspicious of government.

Our mistake is that we did not go far enough. We did not take power away from institutions to rule over us. My column in @nationalpost, based upon the article in @c2cjournal: nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

I've opened a YouTube channel where you can find all my video work: explainers, appearances, and cinematic-style video essays. You can subscribe here: piped.video/@firstprinciples…

Study from Israel of Delta outbreak: 96.2% vaxxed, no herd immunity, high viral loads, all serious illness and deaths among the vaxxed, everybody masked. eurosurveillance.org/content…

If mandatory vaccinations are not unconstitutional, then on COVID, the Charter is truly useless. My latest for @nationalpost: nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…

We approach State Singularity: the moment when state and society become indistinguishable. Like black holes, state singularities absorb and crush every other thing. Have we crossed our event horizon?

Here’s an example of how the Charter is being transformed from a roster of individual freedoms into a blueprint for collectivist causes. The court claim described below alleges that the Saskatchewan government's approval of two new natural gas power plants is unconstitutional because - of course - climate change. Canada contributes around .015 of global carbon emissions. Of that amount, Saskatchewan's power sector contributes around .019. Saskatchewan has about 15 other generating stations powered by gas or coal, so the two new ones (ignoring variations in carbon output) represent something like .12 of the total. .015 x .019 x .12 = .0000342 So these two power plants will contribute something in the order of .0000342 of global carbon emissions. Even if you believe that human activity causes climate change, these two plants will have no measurable effect on anything or anyone. Yet this claim argues that these plants are UNCONSTITUTIONAL, on the grounds that they violate section 7 of the Charter, including the right to SECURITY OF THE PERSON. The suit asks the court to impose on the Saskatchewan government an obligation to make climate policy that activists demand. SECURITY OF THE PERSON was supposed to mean that governments are restrained from taking your liberty or telling you what to do. But in this suit, it is to mean that activitists can demand symbolic action on what they perceive to be collective problems (even if that action will make no actual difference to the probem). In other words, building power plants infringes security of the person, while imposing vaccine mandates and covid lockdowns do not. The Sask govt has moved to have the claim dismissed. Let's hope that succeeds. But don’t hold your breath.

"Canadians are living in a state of medical authoritarianism where the rule of law is in tatters, and constitutionalism and democracy with it." Article by Jay Cameron of @JCCFCanada westernstandardonline.com/20…

Disappointing drafting for the proposed Alberta Bill of Rights. Why copy one of the biggest mistakes from the Canadian Charter?

Time to end fluoridation of water in Canada. If you want to ingest fluoride, that’s your call. But it shouldn’t be involuntary. It’s not just a science question, but a legal one: who gets to decide what you put in your body? And about those vaccines…

For centuries, we have made a constitutional mistake.

Make Alberta America - not again, but for the first time. My piece in ⁦@AmericanThinker⁩: americanthinker.com/articles…

"I do not recall a document from the Public Health Agency or Health Canada to Transport Canada recommending that Transport Canada take this approach."

If the Crown Attorneys Association believes that criticism from the media and the public is “an affront to the rule of law”, then they don’t understand the rule of law very well. @ikwilson is right. Me thinks they doth protest too much.

Some things are predictable. macdonaldlaurier.ca/there-wa…

ESG is corporate socialism. It turns companies into social welfare institutions and gives business leaders licence to pursue “social good” with other peoples’ money. My lastest for @financialpost, based upon a piece for @FraserInstitute: financialpost.com/opinion/es…

Free speech includes speech that offends. The UK is off the rails.

The logic of socialized healthcare was bound to get here eventually. Keeping old geezers alive is a drain on public resources. The “common good” therefore requires that the state pressures them to consent to execution.

In the United States, hate speech is constitutionally protected. In Canada, hate speech is a crime - unless you are expressing hatred against the “correct” groups.

Challenge to Western’s booster mandate launched by @LDBildy and @TDF_Can, with two cents from yours truly.

“Intersectionality”

"A political decision was taken by Trudeau and his cabinet to go ahead with the mandates, and the hapless bureaucrats were charged with coming up with some rationale, any credible rationale after the fact."

If Albertans resolved to leave Confederation, could you really blame them? Alberta is the youngest son who makes the money that keeps the family afloat, but still gets pushed around by his older siblings at the dinner table.

Nothing says “we’re not American” better than a health system inaccessible to everyone and accountable to no one.

Canada has always and forever been “Net Zero”. If that mattered. Which it doesn’t.

Great question. The answer, of course, is no one. Not the legislature. Not the court. Not the “experts”. Not the mob (“the people”). The mark of a genuinely free country is that no one has broad power to act in the common good.

Going full circle back to feudalism. Hayek said it was the Road to Serfdom.

But you can incite hatred against British white people as much as you like. The social justice Stasi now run the UK.

During Covid, the Charter has been useless: my latest for @financialpost financialpost.com/opinion/op…