Society responds to petition opposing course Indigenous history class for lawyers justified and more common in Canada
As Alberta’s Law Society seeks to defend rules that require members to take a course on Indigenous issues, experts say such measures are common elsewhere in Canada and are well-grounded in legal rationale.
One signatory to the petition, Glenn Blackett, has called the course “political indoctrination” and compared it to a cancer infecting the roots of Canada’s legal system. Webber said the complaint’s intent to disallow the society from requiring any continuing education suggests the motivation is elsewhere.British Columbia is one province where the law society requires an Indigenous-themed course.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta requires ongoing education as well as two mandatory courses related to sexual abuse and misconduct. Nor is it convincing to claim that some types of legal practice don’t intersect with Indigenous issues, Webber said.
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