If the government has a license to treat people differently, depending upon their identity,

then they now have a license to punish and reward as they wish.

Bruce Party is the executive director of Rights Probe and professor of law at Queens University

in Canada.

One year on, what is the legacy of the trucker convoy protests?

Why have so many people bought into the idea that a society in its problems must be managed

and controlled by so-called experts?

Some people thought that the law would save them from all of this, but the law is a product

of the culture.

A document is not going to be able to resist the culture as it changes.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janie Kellek.

Bruce Party, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

It's a pleasure to be here, thanks for having me.

So we first sat down to chat about a year ago, and we didn't end up publishing the

interview.

It was about the trucker's movement, of course, and just in the days as we were about to publish

it, and I forget the new name for it, but what I remember as the War Measures Act was

pulled.

Right.

Right.

And so we didn't, I didn't get to have you on the show, I guess it's a year, year and

a half now since we talked.

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