On October 18, 2021 Canadian Lawyer published an article about L4CJ’s open letter to the incoming Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Prime Minister. The article quotes L4CJ’s Aladdin Diakun throughout, discussing human rights and lawyers’ duties in relation to climate change: “If we’re serious about tackling systemic racism in Canada and serious about tackling the barriers that Indigenous communities are already facing in Canada, we have to get proactive about climate change… Every lawyer should be asking themselves; how will the climate crisis increasingly affect my practice and my clients' interests and what can I do proactively to make sure that those interests are protected?”
Click here to read the article.