This means lawyers practicing in Alberta will still have to take mandated continuing education courses.
In response, 400 lawyers filed a letter supporting the Indigenous cultural competency requirement. The letter said that the legal profession was complicit in the residential school system and its members have acted in ways that perpetuate injustices faced by Indigenous peoples.
“It really gave lawyers a bare minimum of Indigenous history in Canada, which I think is very important because a lot of them maybe never had the opportunity to learn because our education system is just catching up,” Koren Lightning-Earle told Global News on Sunday. Lightning-Earle is the legal director of the University of Alberta’s Wahkohtowin Law and Governance lodge.
“There’s always somebody in the room that has a bit of pushback to the information I’m giving like it’s fake news or it’s not real. “I come from a generation of my parents who are residential school survivors or day school survivors… For me, it’s very real. It’s a very real conversation that people need to have.”
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