Part Two: Bruce Pardy’s speech to Buck Creek town hall

What's the Plan?

This picture was from nine years ago. Do you think in the Separate Alberta people will be able to chose their pronouns?

My apologies for taking so long to post the Part Two of this townhall. I kept going back to it thinking I missed something, but I didn’t. This is the separatist’s “NO PLAN” for separating from Canada. Bruce’s part starts at: 26:56

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1LyxBXopPYrGN?s=09 Streamed from Buck Creek Hall.

Last time we looked at Nadine Wellwood. She was setting the scene, letting separatists know the history and painting a picture of what an independent Alberta could look forward to - Saudi Arabian and Norwegian wealth. Then it was time for how it will work. They quote “Keep the Canada inside Alberta.”

(My apologies I have worked on this on and off over the last month and the separatist’s plans still make no sense to me. Here is another go at it. Feb., 19, 2026.)

Law Professor at Queen’s University- on leave. He is from Ontario.

https://law.queensu.ca/directory/bruce-pardy (he has co-authored articles with Jordan Pederson. In one article talks about the new disability in education. The new disability are those kids with no disability.)

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Bruce: People ask what the hell am I doing here? The answer is you have a moment. An opportunity that comes maybe once a lifetime, maybe once in a civilization, and if you don’t take it, it will be gone. In your hearts, there may be a Canada you know and love. That country, the True North Strong and Free, the land of opportunity, a fair and just country, above all, a free country. Governed by the rule of law. A country whose Flag has flown over the Olympics. Maybe you have served this country

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(Bruce is saying that Canada is not functioning and that if you live in Alberta, you have a moment, an opportunity)

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Bruce: Over the years, longer, an ugly truth has been revealed, and that is this. This country you have in your heart or head does not exist. There are 2 Canadas, one is imaginary, the other one is all too real. What is the real Canada?

It’s possible that Canada was once a free and noble country, maybe, I am beginning to wonder. In 1775, George Washington invited the Canadians, as they then were, to join the Americans in their revolution. To try and get Canadians out from under the thumb of the British King, and they said no, thank you.

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(George Washington did invite the inhabitants of Canada, specifically the people of the Province of Quebec, to join the American cause against Britain in 1775. This was part of a broader American strategy in 1775 to persuade French-speaking Canadiens (and others in Quebec) to join the revolution or at least support the invasion, securing the northern frontier and potentially adding Canada as a 14th colony.

Unfortunately for the Americans, the attacks and invasions largely failed:

• Most Canadiens remained neutral or supported the British (thanks in part to the Quebec Act of 1774, which granted them religious and legal protections).

• The military campaigns ended in disaster, including the failed assault on Quebec City on December 31, 1775 (where Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded), leading to a full American retreat by mid-1776.)

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They wanted to be subjects of the crown.

Foundational stories go a long way … the foundational story of America is freedom. The foundational story of Canada is subject to authority. They come by it honestly - garbled…

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(Is America really free. Watching what is happening, where everyday citizens are being arrested and killed, it doesn’t look free at all to me.)

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I visited Ottawa when I was 17, toured the parliament buildings, visited the Supreme court but the last thing he claims he remembers from that trip is that he saw a t-shirt. I remember walking down the street somewhere near Parliament hill I passed a guy, wearing a T-Shirt which said Ottawa- we run things. My 17-year-old self thought to hmm, they think they run the country.

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• It’s an example of a foundational Bruce Pardy Story:

• No connections emerge to Ottawa-specific merchandise, local pride slogans, political campaigns, or cultural items from the 1970s. Searches for Ottawa t-shirt slogans or vintage apparel from that era turn up plenty of retro designs (e.g., city skyline graphics, hockey team tees like the Ottawa Nationals from the early 1970s WHA, or generic “Made in Ottawa” vintage styles), but nothing matching this phrase. Local history, Reddit threads on Ottawa apparel/artists, or vintage markets (Etsy, etc.) don’t reference it either.

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I grew up, became a Lawyer and later a Law Prof. Spent 35 years looking at these things and discovered something. I discovered they are right, they do run the country. Governments run the country, federal, municipal, provincial, courts, and agencies. Bureaucracies run the country

If you are looking for a reason why Canada is broken, that would be at the top of my list.

Here’s the argument: it has 4 steps:

Argument: 4 steps.

1. Canada is broken

2. It cannot be fixed

3. In order to save yourselves and possibly inadvertently save the country, Alberta has to go.

4. But leaving is not enough, it is very important that Alberta leave the Canada that is outside Alberta. But you also need to purge the Canada that is inside Alberta. Because Alberta runs an awful lot like Canada. (This is the statement Nadine finished her talk on - about getting rid of the Canada inside Alberta)

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• So he starts with a fundamental statement - Canada is broken. Who says it’s broken? Separatists and, by extension, he does. What does broken mean? It’s a populist rallying cry for critics of the status quo, implying the country needs major fixes (often smaller government, deregulation, tax cuts, etc. If you look at Alberta as an example Smith has the largest provincial caucus in government ever).

Defenders (including some economists, Liberal supporters, and centrist commentators) argue Canada isn’t literally “broken” — it’s still wealthy, stable, and ranks highly globally in quality of life, safety, and social supports. They call it alarmist or exaggerated pessimism, pointing to strengths like post-pandemic wealth gains for lower-income groups or relative performance vs. other nations.

• He claims it cannot be fixed. Canada can be fixed. It means we have to work at it. Dialogue with each other, compromise, and come to some common understandings. Ripping up the game board will not solve anything.

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If and when you get to the stage of deciding how this new, free, and independent country is going to work, here are the kinds of things I suggest you do not do.

Process

• Don’t take what you know. Don’t take the Canadian constitution. Fiddle with it. The overlords in Edmonton will have the power. If this happens, the project will have been a failure.

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  (You always need another who is not the same as you so you have someone to blame - that way if something goes wrong you can blame it on… the others)

Edmonton becomes the Other:

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• Taken all the powers Ottawa has and given them over to Edmonton. Edmonton already has powers; the feds do some things, the province does some things.

• Instead of diluting the power, you have concentrated all the power in one place.

• Now the people in Edmonton who think very much like the people in Ottawa - Edmonton runs things too, and now they have all the power.

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  (Edmonton now becomes the boogie man because they take over what Ottawa has done so instead of fixing it we are going to tear it all down)

Get rid of everything and start from scratch:

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• Clear the table, start with a blank slate. Ask yourself this question: What kind of country do you want?

• Albertans are saying: to live free.

• What does that mean? Get rid of bureaucrats, get rid of people who have power over you. Then are you free?

Pardy’s definition of freedom:

• My answer is that you are free when you are not being coerced. Not being made to do things you don’t want to do. Not subject to the force that is other people telling you what to do. Like neighbours or the state. Your actions are voluntary.

• You can decide what to do, with the only exception that you can’t force other people - tell them what to do. That’s the state of being free.

• You are not free now. Canada pretends to be a free country. True North Strong and Free. Turning out not to be the truth. One reason for this. The way the Canadian Constitution has a default position. It basically says the state (the federal government, provincial government, the legislatures, the executive branch, the courts all together. All the bits of the state together. The state has unlimited power; it can do anything. Literally, it establishes this: that the state can look out for the general welfare for the good of the public interest. Then it creates exceptions, and what are the exceptions? Well, those are the charter rights you think you have.

What will be the State’s power when it separates?

• The state can do anything except… infringe on your freedom of speech. At least in theory.

• But then.. garbled… the exceptions are still under the general rule, the state can do anything.

• Here is the bottom line: We think we have these big, grand rights and freedoms laid out in the charter, but they are just exceptions. Small carved out exceptions to the general rule, and the general rule is that the state has unlimited power. And the courts will allow them. So what do you do?

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• (Transfer the power from Ottawa to Edmonton - make Edmonton the enemy, you will have concentrated all the power in one place. Where is the power going to be? Some other things to point out. He says Canada pretends to be a free country. This is turning out not be the truth. One reason is the Canadian Constitution - The Constitution sets out the basic principles of democratic government in Canada when it defines the powers of the three branches of government:

• The executive - The Ministers on behalf of the King

• The legislative - Parliament

• The judiciary - The Courts

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If you are starting again with a blank slate…. The first thing to do is don’t do that!

Second thing, how are we going to design a constitution that doesn’t lead to that result? Take the default, the almighty default, and flip it on its head.

Secondly, take the default and flip it on its head.

The state has the power to do nothing. Except if you want the state to do something, the problems are not having a state at all… no state- no police, no courts, nothing but anarchy. You are likely to get violence. Lawlessness. You don’t want that.

List of what the state can do. Pardy’s list

1. The state can do nothing except keep the peace.

2. The state can do nothing except resolve disputes.

3. The state has no power except that you want it to protect the country, not very much else. You are flipping the default. If you can do that, you are on your way to. purging Canada inside Alberta.

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So who is going to fix the roads? Build the schools? Administer the Healthcare system? All of these take structure to build, maintain and administer. There is no plan and that should give every one who thinks the separatists are on the right track a pause to think what they are actually proposing.

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Further In Alberta:

1. Everybody is subject to the same standards and laws as everybody else. Not what we have right now in Alberta and in Canada. Right now, according to Pardy, the state can decide to apply different rules to different groups and individuals. Now you are subject to their decisions, discretion, and whims. Whether they are going to favour or punish the group you belong to.

2. Why do people think Canada can be fixed? One reason is the pillars of Western civilization. Rule of law, rights of the individual. Free markets, protection of the law, separation of powers. The fact is, those ideas don’t apply in Canada anymore. The law itself has been changed and is changing. This is because the law is controlled by institutions. The institutions have been taken, corrupted by a set of ideas, by an ideology. To fix the country, you have to re-establish the institutions and fix the ideas. That’s not happening.

3. If you are going to apply the principles that the same laws apply to everyone equally, it has implications. One of those is that in Alberta, Aboriginal Rights will not exist. 45:17 What about treaties?

4. Treaties were arranged many years ago between people who were present at the time. Who are now all dead. Arrangements were made between the people and the crown. In a new Alberta, Pardy says he hopes there will be no crown.

No crown get rid of:

1. The Westminster form of government

2. Treaties and the idea of Aboriginal rights. They are not the natural order of things.

3. History migration and mixing is the history of humanity. Everywhere all the time.

4. Invasion people mix generations carry on (Israel?) Metis

5. Culture evolves is different than the culture that was there and the culture that was brought.

6. Great Britain would have to have different rules for descendants of Romans, Saxons, and Normans.

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They don’t want mixing they want a white, evangelical Christian Alberta, where white men are in charge and everyone else is there to work for them.

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• Free Alberta. Free to create your own businesses on a contractual basis without being interfered with by overlords (government)

Canada today u can see what’s happening. We are in a managerial age. The state tells us what to do.

Everybody is on the take.

Politicians and their pensions

CBC

Protected industries

Supply management

Very few pay taxes, and the government plunders it.

These are the Kinds of things to escape, kinds of things to defeat.

Distinction tasks and challenges

• First part right now. Needs signatures need a referendum, and a good number on that vote.

• Once successful, you have task #2 to defeat the system in place in Canada and in place in Alberta. So you are no longer being taken advantage of.

• This is where his part ends and they go on to the questions.

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Many of those who don’t pay taxes it’s because they don’t make enough money. If businesses paid living wages and they could afford to pay they would gladly. Instead the government cut taxes for Corporations in Alberta from 12% to 8%. So those making the most pay the least.

You as an individual pay 8% if you make up to $61,200. 14% to the federal government to cover social services, healthcare, postsecondary education, transportation, transfers to the provinces.

https://www.taxtips.ca/taxrates/ab.htm

Okay, so they want to get rid of taxes, treaties, laws, rules, and government. What he is suggesting with all those gone, there will be no one taking advantage of Albertans. When looking at our current provincial government which has paved the way for the Separatist referendum, I don’t think the wild west we are living in right now is one I want my children and grandchildren to live in. We are stronger together and community helps us when times are tough and we can celebrate with them in times of plenty. That’s what I want. An Alberta that works for everyone, including those who see government is overbearing. We are all one accident, one year, month, day away from needing support - I want to know if I ever need it, it’s there and in the meantime I will pay my taxes so it’s there for you and yours too!