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The Law Society of Ontario is determined to compel all lawyers who wish to practise in that province to sign on to the Society’s version of a progressive agenda. The Society is also considering making it mandatory that lawyers attend sessions on such subjects as “unconscious bias,” and apparently any other subjects it considers necessary to further their progressive agenda.

Many lawyers are not buying it. There are grumblings about “compelled speech,” “thought control,” and some are talking about George Orwell’s 1984.

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Who is right? The Law Society or the grumblers?

First, what is a progressive agenda?

It is the same agenda that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in 2015, the pursuit of “equality, diversity, and inclusion.”

One of the prime minister’s first decisions after assuming power was to announce that 50% of his cabinet ministers would be women regardless of the number elected. When a reporter asked him why, he famously replied “because it’s 2015.” That is the “progressive agenda” in action.