Ontario Law Society to make lawyers take mandatory six-hour indigenous training
Ontario lawyers must now complete six hours of mandatory Indigenous training, featuring land acknowledgements, lessons on colonization, and seven modules on pre-colonial religious beliefs.
Ontario lawyers must now complete six hours of mandatory Indigenous training, featuring land acknowledgements, lessons on colonization, and seven modules on pre-colonial religious beliefs, just to keep their professional licenses.
The Law Society of Ontario’s “Equity and Indigenous Affairs Committee” has approved mandatory “Indigenous cultural training” for all of its more than 61,000 members. The training will count toward the ethics training they are already required to take, meaning the Indigenous ideology seminars will replace other potentially relevant ethics education for lawyers seeking to receive or maintain their licence.
