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Cultural Competency for Lawyers
Building blocks for better, more culturally competent legal practice
—Rebroadcast— Jump Start on CPD 2019 Monday and Tuesday, March 4 and 5, 2019 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
(Original Course Date: September 17 and 18, 2018)
Who should attend: All lawyers and others working in the legal system.
Learning level: All levels
Cultural competency is a critical part of overall competency as a lawyer, and cultural competency includes understanding the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The Indian Residential School (IRS) survivors’ class action settlement against Canadian governments and churches included the establishment of the TRC.
The Calls to Action in the TRC’s report focus on addressing the ongoing societal impacts of the IRS such as overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the child welfare and criminal law systems, high levels of violence against and amid Indigenous peoples, and violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people.
The TRC observed that the legal system played, and continues to play, a very important role in the inequality of Indigenous Peoples within Canadian society. The TRC also recognized that in order to move from conflict to collaboration, the legal profession must consider how it contextualizes legal advice in the spirit of reconciliation.
The TRC’s Call to Action #27 calls upon lawyers to receive appropriate cultural competency training, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations. In response to this call, this course will provide you with skills-based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism.
Join us and start your path to cultural competency today!
Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 12 hours (a minimum of 2 hours will involve professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management)
Course Chairs Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
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Please note: The CPD hours of the rebroadcast may differ from the CPD hours of the original, live program.
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Course Chairs Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Patricia Barkaskas earned an Master of Arts in History, with a focus on Indigenous histories in North America, and a Juris Doctor, with a Law and Social Justice Specialization, from the University of British Columbia. She is the Academic Director of the Indigenous Community Legal Clinic and an Instructor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Patricia has practised in the areas of child protection (as parent’s counsel), criminal, family, as well as civil litigation and prison law. She has worked closely with Indigenous peoples in their encounters with the justice system and has worked for Residential school survivors as an historical legal researcher for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. In addition, she has written Gladue reports for all levels of court in BC. Her current and future teaching and research interests include access to justice, clinical legal education, decolonizing and Indigenizing law, particularly examining the value of Indigenous pedagogies in experiential and clinical learning for legal education, and Indigenous laws. Patricia is Métis from Alberta.
Lee Schmidt was called to the bar in BC in 2003 after graduating from UBC law. She practised at a Vancouver firm specializing in Aboriginal law on behalf of Indigenous peoples for 13 years. Her practice includes treaty negotiations, Aboriginal rights and title litigation and consultation processes, and advancing civil claims for abuses suffered by residential school survivors. From 2008-2016 she exclusively represented survivors in the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canadian history. Lee is now the Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC. Born and raised in BC, Lee's ancestry is Cree-Metis from Sandy Bay, Saskatchewan from her father, Louis Schmidt, and Dutch from her mother Lisa. Lee is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Indigenous Bar Association.
Faculty Rhaea Bailey — Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Kennedy A. Bear Robe — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Vancouver Cynthia Callison — Callison & Hanna, Vancouver Renzo D. Caron — Vice President, Indigenous Services, Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Leah B.M. Fontaine — Crown Counsel, Duncan Nigel Grenier — JD, Student, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC; Lead Dancer, Dancers of Damelahamid, Vancouver Isabel Sa-Gyo: Gitxsan Jackson — Department of Justice, Vancouver Darlene Johnston — Associate Professor, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Jim Kwes’ Kwestin Kew — Acting Protocol and Communications Officer, Musqueam Indian Band, Vancouver Johnny Mack — Assistant Professor, Law and First Nations Studies Program, Faculty of Arts, University of BC, Vancouver Laura A. Matthews — Matthews Mediation, Mission Michael McDonald, QC — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver Dr. Bruce McIvor — Lawyer, First Peoples Law, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Bev Sellars — Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation, Williams Lake Karenna L. Williams — Grant Huberman, Vancouver
Day 1
Welcome and Introduction
Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Gabriel George — Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Janice George — Squamish Nation Jim Kwes’ Kwestin Kew — Acting Protocol and Communications Officer, Musqueam Indian Band, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Territorial Acknowledgement
- the importance of welcoming in Indigenous Cultures
Jim Kwes’ Kwestin Kew — Acting Protocol and Communications Officer, Musqueam Indian Band, Vancouver
Identity and Situatedness
Cynthia Callison — Callison & Hanna, Vancouver Darlene Johnston — Associate Professor, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Break
Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Survivance
Darlene Johnston — Associate Professor, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Networking Lunch (provided)
Indian Residential Schools
- history and legacy of residential schools
- colonialism and genocide
- the forced transfer of Indigenous Peoples’ children
- inter-generational effects and ongoing societal impacts: overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the justice system
Bev Sellars — Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation, Williams Lake
Break
Cultural Competency in Context: Bringing It All Together
- what does “cultural competency” mean
- how does cultural competency impact lawyers’ overall competency
- anniversaries of the Canadian state from Indigenous perspectives
Three videos
- Chief Dan George — “A Lament for Confederation," 1967
- George Erasmus — Canada’s 125th “birthday,” 1989
- Christi Belcourt — “Canada, I can cite for you, 150” (at Canada’s 150th “birthday”)
Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Closing Comments
Patricia M. Barkaskas — Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic & Instructor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver Lee Schmidt — Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Day 2
Talking Past Each Other
Talking Past Each Other describes, in the form of contemporary Indigenous dance, the dialogue generated in Aboriginal and Treaty Rights litigation, where Indigenous peoples and the Crown forward arguments that stem from fundamentally different perspectives. This piece delves into two key questions: what is our relationship to the land? And what does it mean to be sovereign?
Nigel Grenier — JD, Student, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC; Lead Dancer, Dancers of Damelahamid, Vancouver
Break
The British Columbia Context
- colonialism and the role of the legal system in British Columbia
Johnny Mack — Assistant Professor, Law and First Nations Studies Program, Faculty of Arts, University of BC, Vancouver
Racism and Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession
- recognizing and acting on racism and implicit bias in the legal profession
Dr. Bruce McIvor — Lawyer, First Peoples Law, Vancouver
Networking Lunch (Provided)
Lawyering for Reconciliation
- lawyering from different perspectives
Rhaea Bailey — Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Kennedy A. Bear Robe — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Vancouver Renzo D. Caron — Vice President, Indigenous Services, Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Leah B.M. Fontaine — Crown Counsel, Duncan Isabel Sa-Gyo: Gitxsan Jackson — Department of Justice, Vancouver Laura A. Matthews — Matthews Mediation, Mission Michael McDonald, QC — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver Karenna L. Williams — Grant Huberman, Vancouver
Break
Lawyering for Reconcili-action: Case Studies
- contextualizing legal advice in the spirit of reconciliation
- working together on what lawyering for reconciliation can look like
Rhaea Bailey — Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Kennedy A. Bear Robe — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Vancouver Renzo D. Caron — Vice President, Indigenous Services, Legal Services Society of BC, Vancouver Leah B.M. Fontaine — Crown Counsel, Duncan Isabel Sa-Gyo: Gitxsan Jackson — Department of Justice, Vancouver Laura A. Matthews — Matthews Mediation, Mission Michael McDonald, QC — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver Karenna L. Williams — Grant Huberman, Vancouver
Plenary Discussion and Closing Comments
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