Free Speech is for Losers: A Conversation with Bruce Pardy

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Hosts
Jonathan Fortier
Guests
Bruce Pardy

Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. He is an academic, lawyer, columnist, and outspoken critic of the illiberal managerial state. Bruce writes for the National Post, Epoch Times, and the Brownstone Institute, among others, and on his own Substack. He serves as senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald-​Laurier Institute, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and the Aristotle Foundation. 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 Tribunal.

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Bruce Pardy about the assaults on free speech in Canada, the UK and Europe. These moves to censor and control speech, especially online content, are ominous indicators of multiple assaults on free expression and political liberty more generally. Pardy outlines the various developments, the legal implications, and argues that our liberty won’t be reclaimed if we continue to outsource our problem solving to the state.