How law society’s race, inclusion policies blind to antisemitism | Sam Goldstein

By Sam Goldstein ( August 11, 2022, 12:17 PM EDT) -- I recently wrote in these pages about why I think the race audit of the legal profession proposed by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) is morally reprehensible; I think categorizing lawyers into groups based on skin colour is racist and what the LSO should instead be concerned with is making sure Ontario’s lawyers are the most competent and the most ethical. In this article I will explain how a race audit discriminates against Jews and other minority groups that Bay Street law firms historically discriminated against, such as Italians and Greeks....