Barry Bussey

Barry Bussey is legal director for the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, one of the intervenor's in Trinity Western University v. Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. In 2013, he was a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.

Barry Bussey

Articles by Barry Bussey

  • The Beam of Christian Schooling

    Attacking faith-based institutions for upholding codes of conduct ignores the Charter, violates the spirit of pluralism, and risks undermining religious freedom, argues lawyer Barry Bussey.

    As to the question of public funding, it’s worth noting that private schools in Canada have been receiving government money since 1867, when the Constitution made provisions for religious education If we are not willing to allow government funding for Christian education, then where do we stop?  Sho...

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  • Judicial Idiosyncrasy

    Lawyer Barry Bussey, who argued as an intervenor in the Trinity Western University hearings last winter, says Canadians must demand their legislatures protect religious freedom from a Supreme Court that seems to have lost its way.

    On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed with the legal elites and said even though TWU is a private, religious university, and even though the Charter does not apply to it, it must follow “Charter values” – that “amorphous” concept described by Justices Côté and Brown as “the product of the idiosyncrasi...

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  • Barristers' Arrogant Blindness

    The decision by Justice Jamie Campbell in the dispute between Trinity Western University and the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society was more than just a win for TWU. It opens our eyes to how blind Canada's lawyers have become.

    The Nova Scotia decision on TWU has painted a bright line between the current state of the law, which allows for religious belief and practice on marriage in religious institutions of higher learning, and emerging legal theories such as "deep equality," which suggests that accommodating such religio...

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