Every lawyer gets emails from the Law Society: reminders to file reports, pay fees,
or use assistance programs to cut back on the booze. But a recent message almost
made me choke on my sandwich. “New obligations for 2017” was its subject line...
“Actions you need to take.” All lawyers, it said, must prepare and submit a
personal “Statement of Principles” attesting that we value and promote equality,
diversity and inclusion. According to the advisory, “The intention of the statement
of principles is to demonstrate a personal valuing of equality, diversity, and
inclusion with respect to the employment of others, or in professional dealings
with other licensees or any other person.”
My first instinct was to check my passport. Was I still in Canada, or had someone
whisked me away to North Korea, where people must say what officials want to hear?
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