400 lawyers fight back against petition that puts mandatory Indigenous course at risk
A group of 400 lawyers in Alberta are fighting back against a petition that puts a mandatory Indigenous history course for lawyers at risk.
The lawyers — along with 124 other Albertans with law-related backgrounds — have signed a letter to the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) in support of keeping a required free, five-hour online course called The Path, which teaches Indigenous cultural competency.
Why do they need that? Each people should be treated and tried base on their crimes.
As it stands, lawyers who don’t take the course face suspension.
Why should one care about a person’s Culture? You do the crime, you should do the time. Be you Indigenous, Canadian, Russian, American, German, white, black, asian, african, etc. You do the crime, you should do the time.
“The history of treatment of Indigenous people in Canada by the legal system, including the profession, warrants a requirement for those who practice law in Canada to be educated on this history,” said (Koren Lightning-Earle, legal director with Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge at the University of Alberta).
So you want a separate legal system to deal with one group. The legal system today should always look at each case, and try each person based on what they did, and base any punishment based on what the law says, not because of one’s racial characteristics. Rules for thee, not for me BS!
You cannot justify someone’s crime based on their heritage, their culture. Or allow them to commit crimes and get off scott free because they belong to a group.
If you don’t want to go to jail, to be fined, etc, then DON’T DO THE CRIME! ! !
Simple. Problem SOLVED!
And that lawyers face suspensions if they don’t do this “mandatory online course” about ONE racial group, but no others? That is stupid as fcuk!
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