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Josh Dehaas: Leftist lawyers aim to permanently politicize Ontario law society

Governance reforms would limit opposition to mandatory Indigenous culture course, and fealty to DEI

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Ontarians don’t tend to pay much attention to the Law Society of Ontario (LSO), which governs more than 60,000 lawyers and paralegals. Their decision last month to make a six-hour Indigenous cultural course mandatory should be a wake-up call.

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I took a version of this course, called The Path. While much of the content was valuable and interesting, it is, at the end of the day, a political program that pushes left-wing understandings of issues like Aboriginal title, “land defenders,” land acknowledgements, and residential schools.

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