In the run-up to the Ontario law society’s election in April, a group of lawyers is taking a stand against what they say is the regulator’s imposition of “woke ideology” on its members in the form of equity and diversity initiatives.
Lawyers and judges—the latter of whom are former lawyers—should be a bastion of impartiality, says one candidate running in the unusually contentious Law Society of Ontario (LSO) bencher election on April 28.
“The legal profession … is supposed to be the last line of defence against state overreach and tyranny,” lawyer Lisa Bildy of London, Ontario, told The Epoch Times. “[In the long term], the judiciary will also absorb this ethos and such that the prospect of coming before a neutral arbiter in the courts becomes less sure.”…