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#Canada: Ontario's jurists voting on 2016 progressive policy principles that were set aside in 2019. Conrad Black, National Post

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

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#Canada: Ontario's jurists voting on 2016 progressive policy principles that were set aside in 2019. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/election-will-decide-if-ontario-law-society-devolves-into-woke-tyranny

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This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batsford. The Law Society of Ontario dating to the

0:41.9

late 18th century as the Law Society of Upper Canada. I'm joined by Conrad Black to

0:49.8

help me understand this distinguished body of jurors and a present controversy that's

0:56.8

coming to a vote soon enough. As I understand it in 2016, the Law Society accepted, adopted

1:04.6

a recommendation from members about equality, equity, inclusion of the words that are now

1:13.7

used, generally understood, the shorthand is woke. That was 2016. It had to do with recommendations

1:21.7

about hiring practices and how to avoid discrimination in the workplace. In 2019, I followed the

1:28.6

reporting that Conrad presents. The benches, those are the board of governors of the

1:35.0

Law Society, rejected the 2016 guidelines for what we now call woke. However, it comes

1:43.3

up again in an election in several weeks time between one slate that says we want woke

1:49.6

back. And the other slate says we got rid of woke in 2019. We're moving on. Conrad, a

1:57.0

very good evening to beg pardon for reducing it into simple terms, but this is a battle of

2:03.4

distinguished jurors, the Law Society. What is this concern that both sides have? Is there

2:12.6

open discrimination in hiring in Canada? Not to my reading. And is the other side who says

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