The west is turning more soviet
every day, it seems. This post is based on a recent Jordan Peterson
video: A Call to Rebellion for Ontario Legal Professionals.
Professional licensing
organizations are sold to the public as entities designed to ensure
high-quality standards. They are nothing of the
sort. They are gatekeepers, agents that work to limit supply such
that they can secure higher prices for the services of their members.
In other words, the mission is
primarily economic. Well…welcome to the next chapter, courtesy
of The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC):
All lawyers and paralegals play
a vital role in Accelerating Culture Shift, one of 5 strategies adopted by the
Law Society to address the barriers faced by racialized licensees.
I thought lawyers played a
vital role in drawing contracts, defending clients, and ensuring justice (and
on the last two, my experience suggests otherwise).
As part of this strategy you
are required to create and abide by an individual Statement of Principles that
acknowledges your obligation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion
generally, and in your behaviour towards colleagues, employees, clients and the
public.
Anyone who works via the good
graces of a professional licensing organization should read this statement
carefully; consider the implications.
The LSUC will make it easy for
a lawyer to comply:
The Law Society has developed
resources to help in creating your personal Statement of Principles.
We have provided templates of
two sample statements. To satisfy the requirement you may adopt and abide by
either statement.
Your principles. For
anyone who holds principles, these are rather personal and deeply
held. But this licensing body will offer you samples from which you
can choose. The templates can be found here;
they offer just what you would expect.
OK, so this is enough of the
type of society that is being created for us; what about the society they work
to destroy?
A private Christian university
that forbids sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage will be in Ontario’s
top court this week, seeking a green light for its proposed law school after
the province’s law society denied it accreditation.
Trinity Western University is a
Christian University based in British Columbia. From the university:
“The LSUC refused to accredit
TWU because of those religious beliefs, and not because TWU’s students would
not meet appropriate standards of learning, professional competence and
professional conduct.”
The accrediting body with which
they are fighting is the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) – yes, you got it
right; the same body that wants to “play a vital role in Accelerating Culture
Shift” by requiring their members to make a statement of principles – and they
will offer their members the principles.
They seem to be working that
“cultural shift” from both ends.
Conclusion
So…in order to practice law in
Ontario, one must hold a license from the LSUC – there is no choice. While
the penalties have not been specified, it is safe to assume that refusal to
sign a satisfactory statement of principles could lead to losing one’s law
license.
But a single law school – one
of dozens if not hundreds in Canada – places requirements and expectations on
their students; if the student does not wish to abide by this conduct, they are
free to attend one of dozens or hundreds of other schools.
This is your culture shift:
they do not respect western civilization; they choose to destroy
it. It is Gramsci, pure and simple.
