Fifty lawyers are calling on the law society to repeal the rule, saying it’s an issue of professional autonomy.
EDMONTON—A group of lawyers in Alberta is pushing back against a rule mandating professional development, which currently only applies to a course focused on Indigenous history and contemporary issues.
The lawyers backing the petition argue the rule “unnecessarily diminishes and hinders professional autonomy in the area of to the detriment of the profession and the public.” Some, such as Glenn Blackett, a Calgary-based lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, argued in an op-ed that the course is a form of “wokeness” and compared it to indoctrination. Blackett also questions the legality of the mandate.
She said the course covers the “bare minimum” when it comes to the history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the impacts of colonialism. She said it’s no different from what’s being taught to children in elementary schools and that it’s only in the last 10 years that these conversations have been highlighted in Canadian discourse.
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