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Collin May: The Canadian Bar Association just disgracefully attacked freedom of the press

Lawyer's group has no business issuing warnings to journalists about how they cover the judiciary

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In a rather remarkable and unprecedented news release, the president of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), Calgary commercial real estate lawyer, Bianca Kratt, took it upon herself to “warn the media on dangers of delegitimizing judges.” The organization that styles itself as the advocate for the legal community has taken to lecturing journalists on how they should report on judicial decisions and those that make them.

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What makes this statement all the more surprising, is that despite its general invocation to all media organizations, it appears to clearly target one particular journalist who recently wrote about an Ontario judge’s views on factoring race into sentencing and evidentiary rules.

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