“Be politically correct or we’ll call you racist” doesn’t cut as deep as it used to, but it’s an approach line that the BC First Nations Justice Council is willing to bludgeon over the heads of lawyers who favour truth.

Two B.C. lawyers are receiving this treatment from the Indigenous advocacy group because they are trying to correct, factually, their regulators’ training materials. Since 2021, all lawyers regulated by the Law Society of British Columbia are required to take a course on Indigenous culture, the materials for which contain the following inaccurate statement: