Blatchford: Klippenstein is usually described as a “progressive” — a believer and practitioner of equality who has often represented, and often pro bono, Indigenous and disadvantaged clients such as those mass-arrested at the 2010 G20 Summit.
As he said in Quillette, “For all of my adult life, I have worked to advance social justice. Now I am horrified by what my own professional regulator is doing in the name of that same cause… Our regulator was demanding that lawyers and paralegals draft and then obey a set of specific political ideas — both in their personal and professional lives — as a condition of their licence.”
He also wrote what few others dared to say: If lawyers were now expected to adopt and promote racial representation according to proportion in the general population, as they are, that meant the proportion of some skin colours and ethnicities was too low, and that in turn meant the proportion of others must be too high.
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